The purpose of this research study was threefold: (1) to investigate the levels EFL writing anxiety, (2) identify types and (3) find out main causes anxiety. Quantitative qualitative methods were employed. participants consisted 200 students enrolled in different disciplines at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Both Second Language Writing Anxiety Inventory (SLWAI) Causes (CWAI) ...

Anxiety experienced by the child can be caused bad life experiences, like Covid-19 pandemic. This outbreak leads to children's mental disorders seen from their changing behavior. study examines implementation of Expressive Writing Therapy through diary writing cope with child's anxiety victims covid-19. The research method used was a literature discuss diary. data collection technique for this ...

BACKGROUND Coronary heart disease (CHD) is typically associated with many cardiovascular risk factors (e.g., elevated blood pressure), low health-related quality of life, depression, anxiety and psychological stress. Expressive writing (EW) has shown beneficial effects on such variables in both people from the community and in patients with a variety of chronic illnesses. However, no study to d...

Forty-three women newly diagnosed with breast cancer participated in this study, which examined the role of expressive journal writing characteristics on mood over the course of a 12-week support group. Writing was analyzed using the linguistic inquiry and word count program. Writing characteristics that were examined included: average word count, number of journal entries, positive and negativ...

The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of Albert Bandura’s four hypothesized sources of self-efficacy on students’ writing self-efficacy beliefs (N = 1256) and to explore how these sources differ as a function of gender and academic level (elementary, middle, high). Consistent with the tenets of self-efficacy theory, each of the sources significantly correlated with writing self...

Literacy is an important result of language teaching. Language skills are like the pieces a whole. The accurate acquisition these skills, which needed to be used effectively by individuals both in their social and educational life, equally valuable. Writing skill that acquired developed mostly during learning process among skills. requires not only recognizing letters rules but also understandi...

The undertaken study investigated the correlation between English language reading anxiety and writing anxiety. A survey research design was employed, a sample of 298 BBA students from private university in Karachi utilized. completed two anxiety-measuring questionnaires: Foreign Language Reading Anxiety Scale (FLRAS) Second Writing Inventory (SLWAI). Descriptive statistics revealed that majori...

We explore aspects of essay writing requiring high-level organizational capacity and executive function. The literature supports the approach that specific and focused writing-skill mastery leads to reduced anxiety and increased self-efficacy which correlates with improved writing skills. Although essay writing is a complex multi-dimensional task, two particular strategies, tree-diagram and ref...