p170: predictors of test anxiety: perfectionism and goal orientation

P170: Predictors of Test Anxiety: Perfectionism and Goal Orientation

Test anxiety as a common disorder is a physiological condition in which students experience extreme stress, anxiety and discomfort during and/or before taking a test. This kind of anxiety results from the sense of threats like fear of failure, lack of confidence and setting unattainable goals in learning and wishing to be perfect in academic situation. Resulting anxiety disrupts attention, memo...

Prediction of Test Anxiety Based on Metacognitive Beliefs and Perfectionism

Objective: The purpose of the present study was to investigate the association of metacognitive beliefs and perfectionism with test anxiety among students.  Methods: The present study was a cross sectional research. Study population comprised all male and female students of Kermanshah City. A total of 440 students (200 males and 240 females, aged 17-18 years) in the third or fourth grade ...

Academic Self-Efficacy as the Mediator between Self-Oriented Perfectionism and Test Anxiety

Academic Self-Efficacy as the Mediator between Self-Oriented Perfectionism and Test Anxiety A. Ardaani J. Fathaabaadi, Ph.D. O. Shokri, Ph.D. M.A. Mazaaheri, Ph.D. Given the predominant problem of test anxiety among students of all levels, it would be helpful to discover ways of combatting it through changes that could be brought about in factors involved in this phenomen...

نقش کمال‌گرایی و اهداف پیشرفت در پیش‌بینی اضطراب امتحان دانش‌آموزان دختر پایه‌ی اول متوسطه

This research was done with the purpose of the study of relationship of perfectionism & goal orientation to predict of Test anxiety in high school Girl Students. The method of research is correlation. Participants were 180 girl students that selected by Cluster sampling from the first grade of high schools. For data collection, Goal Orientation Scale of Elliot & Murayama (2008) Multidimensional...

GOAL ORIENTATION AND FEEDBACK SIGN AS PREDICTORS OF CHANGES IN MOTIVATION AND PERFORMANCE A Thesis

Academic Optimism, Occupational Goal Orientation, and Job Satisfaction among Teachers

Academic Optimism, Occupational Goal Orientation, and Job Satisfaction among Teachers R. Badri Gargari, Ph.D. M. Beyraami, Ph.D. S. Gholaami Job satisfaction is a function of many socio-cognitive factors among which are those measured in this study. A sample of 274 teachers randomly selected from among all elementary school teachers in Tabriz was given three questionnaires ...