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Gender‐related worry and emotionality test anxiety for high‐achieving students
Author(s) -
Williams Janice E.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
psychology in the schools
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.738
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1520-6807
pISSN - 0033-3085
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1520-6807(199604)33:2<159::aid-pits9>3.0.co;2-m
Subject(s) - worry , emotionality , test anxiety , psychology , anxiety , test (biology) , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , cognition , psychiatry , paleontology , biology
Test anxiety among academically talented high school students ( N = 103) was explored in this study. Two components of test anxiety were assessed: a cognitive component (worry) and a physiological component (emotionality). The results indicated that these students suffered from test anxiety, and that higher anxiety was related to lower science performance. Overall, females reported more test anxiety than did males. Whereas females experienced higher worry than emotionality, males reported little difference between the two anxiety components. Implications for college‐bound students are discussed. © 1996 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.