Gender, Grade Point Average, and Test Anxiety
- 1 June 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 52 (3) , 892-894
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1983.52.3.892
Abstract
The present study assessed the effect of gender on test anxiety and grade point average (GPA) among 40 college students. Subjects reported their GPAs and responded to a test-anxiety questionnaire. Analysis of covariance indicated that gender did not affect GPA after an adjustment was made for differences in test anxiety. However, gender produced a significant effect on test anxiety following an adjustment for GPA differences, with women reporting significantly more test anxiety than men. The results were discussed in terms of anxiety's motivating capabilities.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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