P127: An Investigation on the Control and Improvement Motives Sources and its Convergence with Exam Anxiety

The goal for this research is to study the relationship between locus of control and achievement motivation with test anxiety among the master students of the Azad University, Olum Tahghighat unit in 2010-2011. Considering the Morgan table the number of sample individuals for this research was 370. Also cluster double sampling method was used. For collection of data three questions and theories of the research were studied using descriptive and inferential statistics. The results have indicated that there is a meaningful relation between the locus of control and achievement motivation with test anxiety, also locus of control and achievement motivation, locus of control and test anxiety, achievement motivation and test anxiety. In addition, a significance difference was not found between males subjects and females in regard to locus of control and achievement motivation variables, however in regard to test anxiety variable there was a meaningful difference between two sex.