The literature reviewed suggests an attentional interpretation, of the adverse effects which test anxiety has on task performance. During task performance the highly test-anxious person divides his attention between self-relevant and task-relevant variables, in contrast to the low-test-anxious person who focuses his attention more fully on the task. This interpretation was supported by literatu...

anxiety is one of the symptoms in chronic schizophrenic patients. past research studies show that psychodrama as a group therapy is effective in treatment and rehabilitation of psychological disorders. the aim of this study is to explore the effect of psychodrama on the reduction of anxiety in schizophrenic patients. 26 male hospitalized chronic schizophrenic patients were randomly assigned int...

Literacy: Many studies have been showing that anxious individuals display attention biases including preferential engagement, difficulty in disengagement, or attention avoidance. Research in patients suggests that pathological anxiety may specifically impair spatial short-term and longterm episodic memory. Recently, many authors have emphasized the role of aversive stimulation on attention, wor...

Test anxiety is common among university students and impairs examination performance. Existing interventions for test are not particularly effective. Prior to developing an effective intervention, the key psychological beliefs that predict need be identified. Two transdiagnostic models, intolerance of uncertainty (IU) Self-Regulatory Executive Function (S-REF) propose different result in emotio...