Test Anxiety: Situationally Specific or General.
Abstract
The paper reports two experiments whose purpose was to relate two bodies of research on anxiety: test and trait-state anxiety. It was reasoned that state anxiety measures obtained in an evaluative testing condition should be more similar to test anxiety than state anxiety measures obtained in nonevaluative situations, such as a game in Study I or an instructional setting in StudyII. The results of both studies failed to confirm this hypothesis. Test anxiety was less sensitive to fluctuations of evaluative stress than state anxiety, and more closely related to general trait anxiety. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 15, 1972
- Accession Number
- AD0746453
Entities
People
- John J. Hedl Jr.
- Sigmund Tobias
Organizations
- Florida State University