Elsa Azpeitia

Resumen

Based on Spielberger's (1972) conceptualization of test anxiety as a personality trait, the present research attempted to determine the differential effetcs of feedback and task difficulty conditions on state anxiety for subjects who differ in test anxiety. Measures of A-state were obtained for 64 Puerto Rican students with hgh and low test anxiety scores while they performed either a difficult or an easy memory task under failure or success feedback conditions. Test anxiety and feeback had an interactive effect on state anxiety; yet, contrary to trait-state theory, high test anxious ifested higher levels of A-state in both the failure and the success condition. No interaction effect was found between test anxiety and task difficulty. Furthermore, the triple interaction between test anxiety, feedback, and task difficulty could not be obtained.

##plugins.generic.articleMetricsGraph.articlePageHeading##

##plugins.themes.bootstrap3.article.details##

Keywords
References
Cómo citar
The effects of test anxiety, feedback and task difficulty on state-anxiety. (2016). Revista Puertorriqueña De Psicologia, 2(1), 31-38. https://www.repsasppr.net/index.php/reps/article/view/9
Sección
Artículo de investigación

Cómo citar

The effects of test anxiety, feedback and task difficulty on state-anxiety. (2016). Revista Puertorriqueña De Psicologia, 2(1), 31-38. https://www.repsasppr.net/index.php/reps/article/view/9