Revisiting the Role of Worries in Explaining the Link Between Test Anxiety and Test Performance
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Educational psychology review. - 1998. - 33(2021), 4 vom: 06., Seite 1887-1906 |
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| Format: | Online-Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | English |
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2021
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Educational psychology review |
| Schlagworte: | Journal Article Education Mathematics Test anxiety Test performance Worry |
| Zusammenfassung: | © The Author(s) 2021. The inverse relationship between test anxiety and test performance is commonly explained by test-anxious students' tendency to worry about a test and the consequences of failing. However, other cognitive facets of test anxiety have been identified that could account for this link, including interference by test-irrelevant thoughts and lack of confidence. In this study, we compare different facets of test anxiety in predicting test performance. Seven hundred thirty university students filled out the German Test Anxiety Inventory after completing a battery of standardized tests assessing general intelligence and mathematical competencies. Multiple regressions revealed that interference and lack of confidence but not worry or arousal explained unique variance in students' test performance. No evidence was found for a curvilinear relationship between arousal and performance. The present results call for revisiting the role of worries in explaining the test anxiety-performance link and can help educators to identify students who are especially at risk of underperforming on tests |
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| Beschreibung: | Date Revised 11.12.2024 published: Print-Electronic Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE |
| ISSN: | 1040-726X |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10648-021-09601-0 |