As you all know, exam dates are slowly approaching. Many families have made various preparations for this exam or exams since the beginning of the semester, and perhaps even in the previous years. While these preparations were sometimes healthy and increased the performance of the person taking the exam, sometimes they were unhealthy and became the source of a process that led to conflict, fighting, and even resentment. In fact, there was only one thing in common, and that was the effort everyone, including families and students, made to ensure that the exam was successful. At this point, in this article, I would like to talk about the psychological elements of anxiety and test anxiety and how anxiety should be evaluated for parents who experience similar feelings with their children while they are preparing for the exam. It evaluates the concepts together and emphasizes the naturalness of the anxiety that arises accordingly. Because this anxiety is a driving force in setting goals and creating a route, and it is an experience that rewards us by giving way to satisfaction and satisfaction as we reach the point we want. It is actually quite normal for us to develop anxiety in a way that will ultimately affect our lives in some way. Of course, it would be beneficial to keep this concern within realistic limits. For example, it is necessary to work with someone who is already successful and evaluate himself as unsuccessful. Otherwise, the current working order may be disrupted and the extreme shift in evaluation may lead to negative psychological consequences.
Another form of anxiety has more environmental sources. Some of the most common situations related to this are "What will I tell my mom and dad if it goes badly?", "If person A passes me?", "What will I tell the people at my school?" It is the expression of anxiety in the form. The anxiety mentioned here not only distracts the person from the reasons for exam success, but also puts the person in search of how to explain the exam result or, more clearly, how to "exonerate" the exam result. So how does this kind of anxiety occur? Research shows that certain common factors in the formation of this type of anxiety are:
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High expectation of success
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Anxious family structure
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An environment that emphasizes the negative rather than the positive characteristics
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Reward of the result of the exam – to be evaluated as a punishment
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Taking the exam without a purpose
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Taking the exam as an end rather than a tool
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Exhaustingly pushing the limits of the person who will take the exam
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Success in the exam = having an understanding of success in all areas of life.
In this context, evaluating and revising these factors in terms of family/environment and the person taking the exam may reduce such anxiety. If you think that this anxiety is constant and unbearable, I recommend you to get support from the nearest mental health professional.
I hope that those who will take the exam in 2018 will pass their exams as they wish.
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