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INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN STRESS AT THE ELEVEN‐PLUS EXAMINATION
Author(s) -
BOWYER RUTH
Publication year - 1961
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1961.tb01717.x
Subject(s) - psychology , anxiety , temperament , developmental psychology , test anxiety , test (biology) , clinical psychology , personality , social psychology , psychiatry , paleontology , biology
S ummary . A standard interview was devised whose aim was to discover the incidence of stress at the Eleven‐Plus examination, and its nature, which was expected to be mainly anxiety, though loss of efficiency was also considered a possibility for some individuals. This was administered in two consecutive years, twice in the same school and once in a school where the children had a different range of home backgrounds, to 161 children, 131 of them at age 11+, the others at age 10 (as one form of control). It was administered before and after the examination (321 interviews, including controls). An attempt is made to link differences in home environment, temperament, and position in family with degree of anxiety. Comparison is made with recent studies of test anxiety made by Sarnoff and his colleagues.