Psychological Development and Education ›› 2004, Vol. 20 ›› Issue (3): 75-80.

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The Different Models of Three Types of Test Anxiety Influencing Test Performance

TIAN Bao, GUO De-jun   

  1. Department of Psychology, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100089
  • Online:2004-07-15 Published:2004-07-15

Abstract: The tested models included:three types of test anxiety as exogenous variables,ten endogenous variables, they were:mastery goal,emotionality,coping behavior,test self-efficacy,achievement-approached goal,achievement-avoid goal,worry,study and test skills,cognition interference and final math performance,in which final math performance was outcome variable.The results were:different kinds of test anxiety had different models which test anxiety influenced test anxiety,namely,these models were:Cognition-Dominated Test Anxiety Model(C model),Arousal-Dominated Test Anxiety Model(P model),Sill-Lack-Dominated Test Anxiety Model(S model).Worry was mediator variable in C model.In P model,A important precondition was that worry influenced emotionality directly and significantly.It was the prominent characteristic that S model had a little mediator variables and test self-efficacy influencing study and test skill.

Key words: test anxiety, cognition-dominated test anxiety model(C model), arousal-dominated test anxiety model(P model), sill-lack-dominated test anxiety model(S model)

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