Relationship of experimentally aroused achievement motivation to academic achievement anxiety.

1 December 1964

journal article
Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology

Vol. 69 (6) , 690-694
https://doi.org/10.1037/h0044038

Abstract

180 Ss, balanced for sex, were administered the Achievement Anxiety Test (AAT) under experimental conditions producing either minimal or high arousal of achievement motivation. Regression of scholastic aptitude and AAT scores on grade-point average (GPA) showed both AAT scales accounting for the same variance in GPA. Analyses of variance of AAT scores showed no sex differences, but highly significant main effects for experimental condition and level of scholastic aptitude. It was concluded that test anxiety is a unidimensional construct, and that the AAT is a measure of anxiety aroused by stress cues present during test taking. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

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