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Peer reviewedKing, Glen D.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1978
Studied effects of anxiety and sex on neuropsychological test performance. Right-handed subjects responded to the Finger Tapping (FT), Form Board (FB), and State-Trait Anxiety tests. Females performed significantly slower on the FT than males, and for females, trait anxiety was negatively correlated with FT performance and positively correlated…
Descriptors: Adults, Eye Hand Coordination, Fear, Neurological Impairments
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Responses on both the state and trait scales of the State-Trait Anxiety (STAI) Inventory were examined under two conditions. The first condition presented a simulated real-life situation containing competitive and evaluative cues without directly suggesting faking and asked subjects to complete the STAI. After an intervening task, the STAI was…
Descriptors: Anxiety, College Students, Psychological Patterns, Response Style (Tests)
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
Townsend, 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
Head, L. Quinn; Knight, Carol Bugg – 1988
The effects of trait anxiety (stable anxiety resulting from personality characteristics pre-disposing an individual to anxiety) and test difficulty on state anxiety (transitory anxiety resulting from situations regarded as difficult or dangerous) and test difficulty perception of 25 undergraduates were studied. The Test Anxiety Inventory was used…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Difficulty Level, Higher Education, Personality Traits
Hedl, John J., Jr.; And Others – 1978
The effects of achievement-oriented and neutral instructions on the humor ratings of both testing and non-testing cartoons were assessed for high- and low test-anxious students. The effects of humor in reducing state anxiety were also evaluated. Fifty-two undergraduate students were selected on the basis of their Test Anxiety Scale scores. Both…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Anxiety, Cartoons, Higher Education
