The Future Anxiety of Student Teachers in the College of Basic Education in Kuwait and its Relationship to some Variables

Abstract

The research aimed to determine the level of degree of future anxiety of the student teachers and the difference degree of future anxiety according to social status, gender, academic specialization. The measure of future anxiety was applied to a sample consisting of (462( students who were under graduation during their teaching practice period in the College of Basic Education in Kuwait. The percentages and t-test of the student teachers’ responses were calculated and analysed. The results indicated that future anxiety percentages ranged between (58.86 – 72.94( and that the political and social sphere of anxiety for the future had the highest percentage while no differences were indicated between the academic specialization on the degree of future anxiety of the student teachers. The results also showed statistical signifcant differences between the arithmetic averages of the male and female scores in the scale in favor of the females while no statistical signifcant differences were registered between the numerical averages of the students’ grades according to the socioeconomic situation, health and death, political, social, academic and vocational, and the general results of the scale.