An examination of the performance anxiety levels of undergraduate music teaching students in the instrument exams according to various variables

Quantitative descriptive method has been adopted in order to analyze the trait-state anxiety levels of students who are studying instrument in the Music Teaching Undergraduate Program according to gender, age, grade level, instrument difference, high school they graduate and the university they studied. The study was conducted with undergraduate students (N= 341) of the Department of Music Education, Department of Fine Arts Education, Faculty of Education of the Black Sea region who are studying in the fall semester of 2019-2020. Data from the study Spielberg et al. The "continuous-state anxiety inventory" developed by Öner and Le Compte (1983), adapted to Turkish, was used. The continuous anxiety inventory was conducted at a time when the students were away from the stress of the exam, and the status anxiety inventory was conducted just before the final exam. According to the findings of the study, there was a significant difference between persistent and situational anxiety. The continuous and situational concerns of music teacher students vary significantly according to gender, age and class. The difference in the instrument was significant in the case of constant anxiety. There was no significant difference between the graduated high school and the university they studied