TY - JOUR
KW - Coping strategies
KW - differential efficacy
KW - emotionality
KW - Test anxiety
AU - Isabel Serrano Pintado
AU - Juan Delgado Sánchez-Mateos
AU - M. Camino Escolar Llamazares
AB - An experimental investigation was undertaken in order to find evidence of the differential effects of three coping programs designed to reduce test anxiety. The experiment involved real clinical cases studied along eight years, in the context of applied research. Specifically, our aim was to analyse whether the effects of three different treatments were due to the predominant component of participants  anxiety. A 3 × 2 × 2 (inter) × 2 (intra) design was employed with the following factors: Therapy (intrasubject factor, pre and post-exam). Treatment (cognitive, physiological and cognitive-physiological). Worry (high-low) and Emotionality (high or low). The results showed that different training programmes did indeed reduce the degree of test anxiety, and that the three programmes did not lead to reductions on the same scale. Furthermore, there are differences in the effectiveness of coping strategies at reducing pre-test anxiety in relation to the dominant variable.
IS - 2-3
M3 - Journal article
N2 - An experimental investigation was undertaken in order to find evidence of the differential effects of three coping programs designed to reduce test anxiety. The experiment involved real clinical cases studied along eight years, in the context of applied research. Specifically, our aim was to analyse whether the effects of three different treatments were due to the predominant component of participants  anxiety. A 3 × 2 × 2 (inter) × 2 (intra) design was employed with the following factors: Therapy (intrasubject factor, pre and post-exam). Treatment (cognitive, physiological and cognitive-physiological). Worry (high-low) and Emotionality (high or low). The results showed that different training programmes did indeed reduce the degree of test anxiety, and that the three programmes did not lead to reductions on the same scale. Furthermore, there are differences in the effectiveness of coping strategies at reducing pre-test anxiety in relation to the dominant variable.
PB - Sociedad Española para el Estudio de la Ansiedad y el Estrés
PY - 2010
SN - 2174-0437/1134-7937
SP - 109
EP - 126
T2 - Ansiedad y Estrés
TI - Differential efficacy of coping strategies in the reduction of test anxiety as a function of the variable predominantly affected
VL - 16
ER -