Causes Of Academic Anxiety Among Tertiary Institution Students
[A CASE STUDY OF ILORIN METROPOLIS OF KWARA STATE]

Another category of anxiety was worried out by Ibrahim (2005), he stated that anxiety can be separated into four categories. These include the super-ego anxiety, construction anxiety, separation anxiety and impulse anxiety. Explaining further Ibrahim (2005) referred to super-ego anxiety as the directed result of the developmental of super-ego which marks the passing of the Oedipus complex and the advent of pre-pubertal period o the latency stage, the fear of or loss of genital stage that characterizes the oedipal child in relation to his developmental of sexual impulses explains castration anxiety, separation anxiety is the process where a child fear the loss of love o even abandonment by his parents if he or she fails to control his impulses in conformity with their standards and demands and lastly, impulse anxiety occurs when a child feel overwhelmed by needs and stimuli over which he has no control or connect control .
    Berne (1990), expatiating on O’Neil’s (1972) classification of another types of anxiety, maintained that anxiety could be referred to as a complex condition of response that varies in, intensity and fluctuates with and this stage is accompanied by feelings of tension and apprehension and the autonomous nervous system is activated at this stage. Equally, Wolpe and Lazarus (1996) described trait anxiety as the differences in how individual respond or are prone to anxiety. The term trait separates the qualities possessed by individual. Individuals with high anxiety trait are said to be more disposed them low anxiety trait individuals and they also perceive certain types of situations, dangerous and risky especially situations that are threats to them self-esteem.
    Berne (1990) added that trail anxiety is a sign of tension, and is reduced as the energy balance restored. Academic anxiety is a type of anxiety or form of anxiety which conceptualized as a transitory or fluctuating emotional state involving feeling of tension and apprehensive and strengthens autonomic nervous system activity it is a response to a specific situation that the person perceives has threatening but changes as the situation changes, Ibrahim (2005) opined that which attempting an intellectual ability problem, some students worry a great dead before facing  it and their worries might be based on their level of performance as well as poor preparation on the part of the students or poor attitude to studies. Also, Ipaye (1982) maintained that thoughts of consequences of failing could make students education anxious’ expectations o parents, teachers, peer and significant others could make students anxious as here would be need to pass to gain recognition and praise.
Causes of Anxiety
    Anxiety is a state of tension that motivates us to do something though the experience of anxiety cannot be traced to any cue yet there are unconscious realities that cause anxiety.
    According to Hilgard, Alkinson and Alkinson (1995) anything that threaten the well-being of the organism is assumed to produce a state of conflicts and other type of frustrations that block the individual progress toward a goal provide one source of anxiety.
    Threat to physical harm, threat to one’s self-esteem and pressure to perform beyond one’s capabilities also produce anxiety.
    Ashaolu (2001) in his opinion believes that mind anger called hostility usually arouses anxiety because the expression of anger or hostile behaviour, which has in the past been punished. He opined that anxiety could also occur through the generalization of fear from one situation in which fear was learned to other similar situations like terminal examination on class test and the like. And for the students can cope by reading ahead of the terminal examination and class tests.
    Frustration has been fingered as the situation most frequently giving rise to anxiety. Hilgard Alkinson, Alkinson (1995). Also stated that “frustration is the blocking of motive satisfaction”. It is the circumstances that result in the failure of a need or motive to be satisfied. Thus when an individual’s motives, need or goal is frustrated thwarted or blocked, anxiety is aroused. Anxiety is described as the internal state of emotional distress that accompanied as blocked motives. As Ashaolu (2001) points put, anxiety often result because frustration tends to provoke aggression or hostility which in turn engender anxiety from fear of punishment and frustration arouses fear of failure to obtain the satisfaction of motives (positive goals) or to obtain relief from unpleasant situation (negative goals).
    Anxiety is often caused as a result of conflict of motives. As reported by Ashaolu (2001) confirmed that anxiety often arose when individual has two desired different movies which needs to b satisfied at the same time. Thus when there is conflict between two dear motives, anxiety is likely to rise before an individual makes a final choice.