Title :
The effectiveness of biofeedback training among university students
Author :
Vitasari, Prime ; Wahab, Muhammad Nubli Abdul ; Othman, Ahmed ; Awang, Muhammad Ghani
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Technol. Manage., Univ. Malaysia Pahang, Gambang, Malaysia
Abstract :
University students need some support program to improve the academic performance. Biofeedback training is one of the effectiveness programs to help students handling the problem regarding of their study process. In this research, the biofeedback training to manage study anxiety in order to increase academic performance among students is proposed. The research was selected for 12 participants. They are divided into two equal groups, the experiment and the control groups. The training runs on six sessions with the experiment groups received full training and no training of the control groups. The result shows that the experiment groups perform better in reducing anxiety levels as well as increase academic performance than that the control groups. Based on these results, biofeedback training can be concluded as an effective program to improve academic performance among university students. Therefore, the participants should be practiced the techniques to get the intensive level in mastering regarding of managing study anxiety and improving academic performance.
Keywords :
diseases; medical disorders; patient care; patient treatment; psychology; University students; academic performance; anxiety levels; biofeedback training; control groups; Biological control systems; Decision support systems; Anxiety; Biofeedback training; Students´ academic performance;
Conference_Titel :
Research and Development (SCOReD), 2009 IEEE Student Conference on
Conference_Location :
UPM Serdang
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5186-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5187-6
DOI :
10.1109/SCORED.2009.5442939