Abstract
Abstract In this article., we review the literature on the development of test anxiety in elementary and secondary school children. Recent theoretical conceptualizations of anxiety are presented. Anxiety is posited to be a multidimensional construct that has roots in how parents react to children's early achievement strivings. Its ontogeny is tied to children's developing capacity to interpret their school performance relative to their previous performance, to the performance of other children, as well as to the increasingly strict evaluative practices children encounter as they move through school. Intervention strategies for alleviating anxious children's poor performance in evaluative situations are discussed. Important issues for future anxiety research are presented, including the need for new measures of children's anxiety and for a more thorough assessment of both individual differences in how students experience anxiety and the developmental course 0f the components of anxiety.
Keywords
PsychologyAnxietyTest anxietyConstruct (python library)Developmental psychologyIntervention (counseling)Test (biology)Academic achievementClinical psychology
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- 1989
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- article
- Volume
- 24
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 159-183
- Citations
- 215
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Allan Wigfield,
Jacquelynne S. Eccles
(1989).
Test Anxiety in Elementary and Secondary School Students.
Educational Psychologist
, 24
(2)
, 159-183.
https://doi.org/10.1207/s15326985ep2402_3
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- 10.1207/s15326985ep2402_3