Research Anxiety Predicts Undergraduates' Intentions to Pursue Scientific Research Careers.

ABSTRACT: Undergraduate research is lauded as a high-impact practice owing to the array of benefits that students can reap from participating. One unexplored construct that may affect student intent to persist in research is research anxiety, defined as the sense of worry or apprehension associated with conducting research. In this study, we surveyed 1272 undergraduate researchers across research-intensive, master's-granting, and primarily undergraduate institutions to assess the relationship among student demographics, research anxiety, and intent to pursue a research career. Using structural equation modeling, we identified that women and students with higher grade point averages (GPAs) were more likely to report higher levels of research anxiety compared with men and students with lower GPAs, res

SUBMITTER: Cooper KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10074281 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature