| Abstract: | The purpose of this study was to discuss the relationship between health fitness performance of junior high school students and exam preparation anxiety. The participants consisted of 599 students from a junior high school in the midland of Taiwan. Among them, 300 samples were boys, the other 299 were girls. The samples were distributed over the 1st, 2nd and 3rd grades. Measures of health fitness included body composition, flexibility, standing long jump, sit-ups, and cardiovascular endurance. In addition, the exam preparation anxiety was measured using the Exam Preparation Anxiety Scale. All data was processed by the descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA test, Pearson correlation analysis. From the analysis results, the findings of the study are as following:1. According to the analysis results for the health fitness performance in different grades, significant difference was found in curl-ups and cardiovascular endurance. For the health fitness performance in different sexes, significant difference was found in BMI, curl-ups and cardiovascular endurance.2. For the exam preparation anxiety in different grades, significant difference was found only in body brain-storm while no significant difference shown in other factors. For the exam preparation anxiety in different sexes, significant difference was found in worry and serious worry factors.3. Significant negative correlation was found for standing long jump in relation to the five indicators of exam preparation anxiety. The same was also shown for sit-ups in relation to out of heart and serious worry. Besides, for cardiovascular endurance in relation to serious worry. There was no significant correlation found for BMI, flexibility in relation to the five indicators of exam preparation anxiety.Keywords: Junior high school student, Health fitness, Exam preparation anxiety |
