Test anxiety contributed to lower student performance, limited students' learning opportunities, predisposed to negative emotional experiences, and affected physical and mental health. Perfectionism as one of the crucial factors influencing test anxiety has been widely confirmed in the context of individualistic cultural values. This study…

Background: Math anxiety (MA) is recognized as a heterogeneous and dynamic construct, significantly affecting students' academic performance. Despite its importance, longitudinal studies examining the profiles of MA from multiple dimensions and their transitions remain limited. Aims: The study identified distinct MA profiles, controlling for…

This study employed a questionnaire to investigate the level, sources, and coping strategies of English learning anxiety among non-English major undergraduates in a Chinese local normal university under blended learning mode. The study revealed that non-English major undergraduates in a Chinese local normal university generally experienced a…

Purpose: Academic anxiety is a common phenomenon in the college student population, which has an important impact on students' psychological health and academic performance. Therefore, by exploring the effects of college students' professional commitment and achievement goal orientation variables on academic anxiety, it helps to understand…

Introduction: The Challenge and Hindrance Stress Framework is an influential theoretical model for measuring individuals' perceptions of stress. However, its structure has not been validated among Chinese adolescents, and the effects of different forms of stress on their short-term and long-term outcomes remain unclear. Methods: Study 1 validated…

As a commonly experienced emotion, music performance anxiety (MPA) greatly hinders performance. Studies have found that personality traits such as perfectionism served as significant predictors of this maladaptive emotion. However, the extant literature rarely explored the differential prediction of adaptive and maladaptive perfectionism or the…

The present study sought to understand the nature and level of foreign language (FL) anxiety among primary school students and the relationship between FL anxiety and FL achievement. Changes in FL anxiety across groups of three primary school years were also examined. A total of 631 (324 male, 307 female) primary school students aged 9-11 years…

This study advances a dual-analytical framework examining the heterogeneous associations between social media use and university students' academic adjustment within the Chinese cultural context, integrating Social Cognitive Theory and the Differential Susceptibility to Media Effects Model. Through a mixed-methods approach combining…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the cross-lagged relationships between academic procrastination and test anxiety. A sample of Chinese adolescents from a high school in Changsha City, HuNan Province, China participated in this study. The participants completed the Aitken Procrastination Inventory and the Test Anxiety Scale at two times…

English holds a dominant position in the L2 context, particularly for programs aimed at developing composite English skills. Despite this, the influence of individual differences on listening comprehension within the business English framework remains underexplored. Therefore, this study investigates the structural relationships among second…

The main objective of the current study is to examine the level of acculturative stress experienced by international Muslim students during their higher education experience in China. The data was collected by applying the Acculturative Stress Scale for International Students from 246 international Muslim students attending universities in…

Education policies align with evolving needs and changes in education. Two years ago, the double reduction policy was widely welcomed. But new challenges have emerged now, it is necessary to examine whether it still meets parental expectations, and whether adjustments in details are needed. We investigated parents' perception of policy…

The present study investigated how trait mindfulness is related to anxiety and aggression by considering the mediating role of resilience with the longitudinal data among Chinese college students with left-behind experience. A total of 391 Chinese college students with left-behind experiences completed the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale, the…

Listening comprehension results are affected by various individual difference factors. This study aimed to examine the relationship between metacognitive awareness, listening anxiety, and EFL listening comprehension. To this end, data from the Metacognitive Awareness Listening Questionnaire (MALQ), Foreign Language Listening Anxiety Scale (FLLAS),…

Smartphone addiction and academic burnout are typical psycho-behavioral problems among adolescents. Extant studies tend to examine them from a single-problem perspective, while research on their co-occurrence is lacking. Moreover, research has been prone to focus on the impacts of the negative sides of smartphone use on the two problems, ignoring…