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Suarez, Yolanda; Crowe, Michael J. – 1991
While self-efficacy has been described as a basic mechanism underlying arousal and performance, the hypothesis that belief of higher self-efficacy should produce lower anticipatory arousal and distress has not been proven. This study assessed perceived self-efficacy, self-report measures of fear and arousal, performance across sex, and a…
Descriptors: Arousal Patterns, College Students, Fear, Higher Education

Smith, Barry D.; Principato, Frank – British Journal of Psychology, 1983
Measured arousal and motor responses as a function of conflict type and field structure. Using paper-and-pencil fields, subjects performed under four conflict conditions and a control condition. Arousal increased significantly with increasing conflict complexity and was habitual over repeated trials, though arousal did not differentiate field…
Descriptors: Arousal Patterns, College Students, Conflict, Higher Education

Deffenbacher, Jerry L. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1978
Students scoring in the upper and lower distributions of the Test Anxiety Scale solved anagrams under high stress (evaluative) and low stress (nonevaluative) conditions. The high-anxiety-stress group reported greater anxiety; rated themselves, their abilities, and the task more negatively; solved fewer anagrams; and estimated spending less time on…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Arousal Patterns, Attention, Emotional Response

Griffore, Robert J. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1977
In an experiment using graduate students, fear of success and fear of failure were highly related factors, but neither interacted with item difficulty to affect test performance. Neither fear of failure nor fear of success influenced males or females differently. (Author/GDC)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Anxiety, Arousal Patterns

Morris, Larry W.; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1978
The Mathematics Anxiety Rating Scale (MARS) was administered to college psychology and mathematics students. Scores were higher for psychology students than for mathematics students; were useful predictors of both worry and emotionality; and were inversely related to performance for psychology students. Worry and performance were inversely…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Anxiety, Arousal Patterns, Behavior Rating Scales
Samuel, William; Nilsen, Paul – 1983
Following a traditional learned helplessness paradigm, subjects initially tried to terminate random bursts of noise using a button-pressing manipulandum and next tried to solve 20 serially-presented anagrams. The noise was broadcast at either a loud or soft intensity, and the subject's button-pressing was either successful (Escape condition) or…
Descriptors: Arousal Patterns, Attribution Theory, College Students, Females
Brown, Alan S.; Itzig, Jerry M. – 1976
The effects of humorous test questions on test performance of high and low-anxious college students was investigated. It was hypothesized that humor should reduce the anxiety level of high-anxious subjects, and thus improve their performance, while having little effect on low-anxious subjects. Students were assigned to a low or high-anxious group…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Anxiety, Arousal Patterns, Higher Education