Anxiety and stress in a time-based performance process

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Abstract
The present study was designed to examine the effect of cognitive, emotional and motivational parameters in a time-based performance process. Students of both sexes in major and general high school in Shanghai (N=203) were randomly assigned to a “neutral” and a stressful condition. A structural model was fitted in each experimental condition. A salient feature of the findings suggests that the constructs of the motive to avoid failure and state anxiety displayed both divergent and convergent functions. The findings were mainly discussed with respect to “uncertainty about the outcome” and “threat to self-esteem”. The present approach suggests a paradigm to explore how different theoretical positions of test anxiety may converge and diverge.

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