ACADEMIC STRESS, TEST ANXIETY, AND PERFORMANCE IN A CHINESE HIGH SCHOOL SAMPLE: THE MODERATING EFFECTS OF COPING STRATEGIES AND PERCEIVED SOCIAL SUPPORT by Juan “Tulip” Xiao Test taking can produce elevated stress and anxiety, with subsequent negative influences on test performance. This has been a focus of prior research. However, only a few studies have explored how coping strategies and perc...

Nursing programs can be highly stressful, and nursing students have been found to be more test-anxious than other students. The present investigation examines a practical program to reduce test-anxiety impairment and improve academic performance for a significant number of highly anxious nursing students. Incoming nursing students were screened using the Westside Test Anxiety scale, and half (4...

Anxiety is a phenomenon encountered by human beings within their daily experience. It is a psychological discomfort resulted from potential threatening situation. The ubiquitous nature of anxiety creates different subtypes such as trait anxiety, social anxiety, situational and test anxieties. Apprehension has been found to interfere with many types of learning but when it is associated with lea...

The present study tried to investigate the association(s) between Emotional Intelligence (EQ, also EI) and Test Anxiety among Iranian EFL (English as a Foreign Language) university students. To this aim, 100 EFL students were asked to complete the "Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire" and the "Test Anxiety Scale". The data were analyzed by the use of descriptive statistics, correlation analysi...

Underrepresented populations (e.g., women in engineering majors) often report higher levels of test anxiety, which has been related to the use of surface study strategies, procrastination, and poor exam performance. The purpose of this study is to gain a better understanding of the relationship between test anxiety and first semester performance and first year retention among engineering studen...

The purpose was to construct a Test Influence Inventory (TII), which consists of two parts, the one is anxiety scale and the other is test fatigue scale. Subjects were 148 (76 males and 72 females) elementary school children. Factor analysis of TII, comprised from 25 items, yielded 5 factors, namely, (1) Emotionality factor (Em), (2) Body factor (Bo), (3) Nervous factor (Ne), (4) Worry factor (...

generalized anxiety disorder is one of the psychological disorders in childhood that is usually neglected. the purpose of this research was to determine the efficacy of cognitive behavioral group therapy on anxiety and worry of children with generalized anxiety disorder. in this semi-experimental study, 38 children were identified among female students in third grade who responded to the screen...

PURPOSE To explore the effect of expressive writing of positive emotions on test anxiety among senior-high-school students. METHODS The Test Anxiety Scale (TAS) was used to assess the anxiety level of 200 senior-high-school students. Seventy-five students with high anxiety were recruited and divided randomly into experimental and control groups. Each day for 30 days, the experimental group en...

Test anxiety has detrimental effects on the academic performance of many university students. Moreover, female students usually report higher levels of test anxiety than do their male peers. The present study examined gender differences in test, trait, and math anxiety among university students, as well as differences in their academic achievement. Participants were 168 students from the Univer...

The current study aimed to examine the role of state-trait anxiety and resiliency in test anxiety. The research was conducted on a sample of 153 high students who completed questionnaire measures of state-trait anxiety (STAI-T), trait resilience (CD-RISC) and test anxiety (TA).  Pearson correlation and regression analyze were used to data analyze. Consistent with the assumption, results in...