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- Title
The relationship between "test anxiety" and "other anxieties".
- Authors
Gordon, Edward M.; Sarason, Seymour B.; GORDON, E M; SARASON, S B
- Abstract
In this article, authors analyze the relationship between test anxiety and other anxieties. They determine the extent to which anxiety in a testing situation is a part of a more generalized pattern of anxiety, and describe the generalized patterns in order to infer further differences among roughly varying degrees of test anxiety. In this study undergraduates enrolled in the introductory psychology course were taken as subjects. Two questionnaires were administered to them in succession during a single regular class session. The formal structure of the generalized anxiety questionnaire and the method of computing scores on it were identical with those of the test anxiety one. In order to determine how each item of the generalized anxiety scale is related to total test anxiety score five different analyses were made. The second analysis utilized only those subjects who were the most extreme scorers on test anxiety, those who were the principal source of data in previous studies. The third analysis was identical with the second except that the next most extreme scorers on test anxiety were used.
- Subjects
TEST anxiety; ANXIETY; PSYCHOLOGICAL tests; COLLEGE students; QUESTIONNAIRES; PSYCHOLOGICAL research; ANXIETY disorders
- Publication
Journal of Personality, 1955, Vol 23, Issue 3, p317
- ISSN
0022-3506
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-6494.1955.tb01158.x