TY - JOUR
KW - Test anxiety
KW - Evaluative stress
KW - Behavioral anxiety
KW - Physiological arousal
KW - self-focused attention
AU - Manuel Gutierrez Calvo
AU - Pedro Avero
AU - Alejandro Jiménez Sosa
AB - Self-report and objective measures of psycholo-gical, behavioral and biological characteristics were collected, in order to examine the nature of test anxiety. In multiple regression analyses, test anxiety was associated (a) with self-reported psychological maladjustment and psychosomatic disorders, but not with actual capacity and skills, cardiovascular fitness, or biochemical parame-ters of health; (b) under stress, it was associated with elevations in self-reported distress, and heart rate during anticipation of evaluation (but not during the tasks), and there were no diffe-rences in behavioral tension. It is concluded that there are no behavioral deficits or biological dysfunctions in test anxiety. The most important component seems a cognitive bias to self-focus on internal sources of information, and to en-dorse them a threat-related interpretation.
IS - 1
M3 - Journal article
N2 - Self-report and objective measures of psycholo-gical, behavioral and biological characteristics were collected, in order to examine the nature of test anxiety. In multiple regression analyses, test anxiety was associated (a) with self-reported psychological maladjustment and psychosomatic disorders, but not with actual capacity and skills, cardiovascular fitness, or biochemical parame-ters of health; (b) under stress, it was associated with elevations in self-reported distress, and heart rate during anticipation of evaluation (but not during the tasks), and there were no diffe-rences in behavioral tension. It is concluded that there are no behavioral deficits or biological dysfunctions in test anxiety. The most important component seems a cognitive bias to self-focus on internal sources of information, and to en-dorse them a threat-related interpretation.
PB - Sociedad Española para el Estudio de la Ansiedad y el Estrés
PY - 1997
SN - 2174-0437/1134-7937
SP - 61
EP - 75
T2 - Ansiedad y Estrés
TI - Test anxiety: Psychological, behavioral and biological correlates
VL - 3
ER -