Anxiety Level vis-à-vis Breakfast Habits of The Students

Abstract

Breakfast as the most significant meal of the day is needed for the students to take before going to school. However, some students are skipping their breakfast and their body responses to this eating behavior remain unclear. This study examined students’ anxiety levels in school as a response after taking and not taking breakfast before going to school. Students are examined and there are students who eat breakfast and students who do not eat breakfast before going to school. Then, each student is given a test that measures their school anxiety level in the morning. Using weighted mean, students who eat breakfast got an overall weighted mean of which is interpreted as a disagreement of being anxious in school. On the other hand, Students who did not eat their breakfast got an overall weighted mean of which is also interpreted to disagree with being anxious. Also, it was found out that both students who eat breakfast and who don’t eat breakfast got midlevel of anxiety. Then, the ANOVA analysis resulted in a significance which is higher than the alpha. Therefore, there is no significant association between the anxiety level of the students who take breakfast and who do not take breakfast. In addition, students both taking breakfast or not taking breakfast do have a normal level of anxiety and breakfast can’t give any effects to their anxiety level at all.