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Simin Wan; Shuwei Lin; Sijie Li; Shen Tu; Guihua Qin – Educational Studies, 2024
Test anxiety contributed to lower student performance, limited students' learning opportunities, predisposed to negative emotional experiences, and affected physical and mental health. Perfectionism as one of the crucial factors influencing test anxiety has been widely confirmed in the context of individualistic cultural values. This study…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Test Anxiety, Junior High School Students, Self Efficacy
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Núñez-Peña, Maria Isabel; Bono, Roser – Educational Psychology, 2019
Students' academic achievement in courses with a high mathematical content can be affected by their levels of trait, math and test anxiety. In this study, 180 university students were assessed on these types of anxiety and the relationships between them and students' performance were evaluated. Higher levels of math anxiety were related to a low…
Descriptors: Low Achievement, Mathematics Anxiety, College Students, Test Anxiety
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Onyeizugbo, Euckay U. – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2010
Introduction: Test anxiety inhibits students from performing according to their full potential in academic setting. Objectives: This study investigated self-efficacy, gender and trait anxiety as moderators of test anxiety. Method: Two hundred and forty nine (249) psychology majors drawn from a university in Eastern Nigeria participated in the…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Self Efficacy, Measures (Individuals), Foreign Countries
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Smith, Ronald E.; Nye, S. Lee – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1989
Assessed effects on undergraduate students (N=54) of direct (induced affect) and generalized (covert rehearsal) cognitive-behavior coping skills programs for test anxiety. Found both training procedures significantly reduced test anxiety but that induced affect yielded largest anxiety decrease and greatest test performance improvement while covert…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Restructuring, Coping
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Burns, David J. – Journal of Education for Business, 2004
Testing is a primary tool for measuring students' comprehension of course material in many collegiate business courses. Test anxiety experienced by students may adversely affect the ability of testing to measure students' comprehension of course material. In this study, the author specifically examined the relationships between test anxiety…
Descriptors: Testing, Test Anxiety, Business Education, Performance