Understanding Cognitive Failures through Psychosocial Variables in Daily Life of Students
BACKGROUND Cognitive failures impair the quality of life. Students are often exposed to stressful situations, struggle to make a balance in life, have time management issues and tend to procrastinate, feel too much pressure to succeed, and find it difficult to cope with study and exam anxiety. In this study, we investigated cognitive failures through psychosocial variables in daily life of students and relationship between anxiety and cognitive failures. A cross-sectional study was conducted among 175 students (78.29 % female and 21.71 % male). Medical students comprised 52.57 % of the sample (n = 92), while 47.43 % were psychology students (n = 83). All students were in the first year of education at University of Sarajevo. The survey used the sociodemographic questionnaire, State-Trait Anxiety (Form Y), Cognitive Failures Questionnaire CFQ. Results were obtained by independent sample test and Pearson’s correlation coefficient (r). 26) students, 130 %) statistically significantly the total of cognitive failures, forgetfulness, distractibility, and false subscales. largest total CFQ 0.453, and anxiety could cause cognitive failures. Student life in addition to the obligations and pressures created by academic engagement itself involves many changes and just thinking about it can cause anxiety symptoms. Accordingly, the undesirable outcomes that cognitive failures can cause maladaptive student habits and anxiety. It should be a treated as a critical public health issue.