Test anxiety, coping, and academic achievement: Maladaptive perfectionism as a moderator

The educational process is saturated with evaluative situations, which often provoke a specific subtype of anxiety known as test anxiety. Since not reliable direct predictor achievement, contemporary research has consistently highlighted the need to explore how this situation-specific trait indirectly affects success through various mediation and moderation processes. goal study was determine existence nature complex moderated mediated relationships between level anxiety, coping mechanisms, maladaptive perfectionism, academic achievement. survey conducted on sample 263 students. instruments used for data collection included Test Anxiety Inventory, Coping Inventory Task Stress, Discrepancy subscale from Almost Perfect Scale-Revised. Academic expressed number points achieved pre-exam knowledge test. According results, perfectionism proved be statistically significant moderator in relationship avoidance mechanism. In students moderate predicted lower achievement emotion-focused mechanisms. subjects high levels better performance avoidance. article discusses guidelines reducing negative effects