FACTORS THAT LEAD TO ANXIETY IN CRIMINOLOGY STUDENTS OF

PHINMA ARAULLO UNIVERSITY

An Undergraduate Thesis

Present To

The Collage of Criminal Justice Education

PHINMA Araullo University

Cabanatuan City

In Partial Fulfillment

of the Requirements for the Degree

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN CRIMINOLOGY

By:

DELA CRUZ, ALURIN Q.

GASPAR, DIANNE C.

VEDERA, ROBIMEL E.

BRAVO, JAMELLA GRAY P.

SACDAL, RONALDO C.

March:2023
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Review of related literature

Foreign literature

According to Muhammad Ajmal and Saghir Ahmad (2019) This study was

conducted to investigate anxiety factors of distance learning students related to Allama

Iqbal Open University. Students feel more anxious with distance learning due to distance

and are unable to discuss and share problems with teachers on a daily basis. The majority

of students had problems faced at admission, lack of time to prepare homework, poor

quality of books, poor communication with tutors, poor feedback from tutors, poor

communication with local offices, and difficulty in completing assignments. Issues

related to due dates, understanding of assignments, assessments, comments from tutors,

high anxiety levels, training to work, location exam centres and job schedules. Lack of

interaction with classmates, lack of knowledge and understanding of paper samples,

exam schedules and exam centre locations. Behaviour of examiners in examination

centres regarding dissertation grading, detailed grading sheets and degrees, degree

equivalence and scope. All of these factors underlie student anxiety in distance learning

and affect academic performance.

Mackolil & Mackolil (2020) noted that anxiety and stigma associated with COVID-19

infection spread proliferate, with anxiety, fear of contracting the virus, frustration,

irritability, and sleeplessness as effects of long-term lockdown during the pandemic.

Misinformation and sharing of fake news through social media are other
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Method of Research and procedure

This chapter presents the methodology of the study. Including research design,

respondents of the study, sampling procedure, research instrument, procedure of data

gathering and statistical treatment of data.

Research design

The research design used by the researchers will be a descriptive method of

research by using questionnaire checklist to know how the factors that leads to anxiety of

criminology students. Descriptive methods defined as the fact-finding with adequate

interpretation and the true meaning of the data collected are reported from the point of

view and the basic assumption of the research. Descriptive method of research is useful

in conducting research that will aimed to identify the characteristics, frequencies, trends,

correlations and categories. Descriptive methods will use in this study considering it is

the most appreciating method in conducting the research.

The descriptive phenomenological type method used will be survey method,

wherein it includes analyzing and recording of answer of the respondents through survey

forms or questionnaire. Surveys were used to collect the feedback from the respondents.

Respondents

The respondents of the study were a total of two hundred (200) criminology

college students, gathered from different college year levels. fifty (50) for selected first