Test Anxiety in Elderly and Young Adults
- 1 August 1976
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in International Journal of Aging & Human Development
- Vol. 7 (3) , 201-210
- https://doi.org/10.2190/8ha7-q3le-3vvt-p227
Abstract
Test anxiety in elderly and young adult college students was measured by the Anxiety Achievement Test following a free-recall memory experiment. As expected, the elderly had higher levels of debilitating test anxiety than the younger adults. A large proportion of older persons showed behavioral manifestations of test anxiety either by refusing to participate in the study, or by their reactions during the testing. Test anxiety was related to memory performance among both age groups, suggesting that an older person's performance on a cognitive task may be influenced by affective reactions to the testing situation itself.Keywords
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