Future-Time Gradients for Performance in Test Anxious Individuals
- 1 February 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Vol. 42 (1) , 235-242
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1976.42.1.235
Abstract
It was assumed that highly anxious individuals should have a negative goal gradient for future performance and that this negative goal gradient should be reduced as the test-anxiety dispositions of the individuals decreased. The results for 392 grade school (6th) students showed, as expected, that (a) the highly anxious individuals ( n = 55) tended to decrease the number of problems solved correctly as a future goal (task) approached in time and that (b) the slopes of the negative goal gradients decreased as the test-anxiety dispositions decreased. When number of problems attempted was the measure of performance (c) there was a tendency for Ss of low anxiety ( n = 101) to increase their performance as the goal approached.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
- ANXIETY AS AN EMOTIONAL STATEPublished by Elsevier ,1972
- ANXIETY IN CONNECTION WITH SCHOOL PERFORMANCE: III. 1 TRY‐OUT OF A NORWEGIAN TRANSLATION OF THE TEST ANXIETY QUESTIONNAIRE FOR CHILDREN 2Pedagogisk Forskning, 1960
- Anxiety in elementary school children: A report of research.Published by American Psychological Association (APA) ,1960
- Tests for Linear Trends in Proportions and FrequenciesPublished by JSTOR ,1955
- A study of anxiety and learning.The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 1952
- Displacement and conflict; learnable drive as a basis for the steeper gradient of avoidance than of approach.Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1952
- Gradients of approach and avoidance responses and their relation to level of motivation.Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 1948