An Investigation into Foreign Language Learning Anxiety, Stress and Personality in Higher Education

The purpose of the present study is to investigate the correlations between foreign language anxiety, coping with stress and personality characteristics in higher education learners. The study was carried out with 399 learners, 164 of them being females and 235 of them males. The learnersʹ age ranged between 17 and 32, with a mean age of 19.30. The data collection tools used in the study were Personality Test Based on Adjectives, Scale for Coping with Stress and the Anxiety Scale for Foreign Language Learning. Pearsonʹs conduct moment correlations and independent samples t test were used to analyze the data. Statistical analyses revealed that the mean anxiety scores of the males and females did not differ significantly. Moreover, there was not a significant correlation between coping with stress and personality characteristics.