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Download full textTownsend, Michael A. R.; Mahoney, Peggy – 1980
The roles of humor and anxiety in test performance were investigated. Measures of trait anxiety, state anxiety and achievement were obtained on a sample of undergraduate students; the A-Trait and A-State scales of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory were used. Half of the students received additional humorous items in the achievement test. The…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Anxiety, Higher Education, Humor
