Developing and Piloting a Dot-Probe Measure of Attentional Bias for Test Anxiety

Autor/inn/en	Putwain, David W.; Langdale, Hannah C.; Woods, Kevin A.; Nicholson, Laura J.
Titel	Developing and Piloting a Dot-Probe Measure of Attentional Bias for Test Anxiety
Quelle	In: Learning and Individual Differences, 21 (2011) 4, S.478-482 (5 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1041-6080
DOI	10.1016/j.lindif.2011.02.002
Schlagwörter	Attention; Bias; Test Anxiety; Measures (Individuals); Cognitive Ability; Cognitive Tests; Undergraduate Students; Stimuli + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Aufmerksamkeit; Examination phobia; Testangst; Prüfungsangst; Messdaten; Denkfähigkeit; Kognitiver Fähigkeitstest; Anreizsystem
Abstract	Attentional bias is a key area of research in the clinical and trait anxiety literature. In test anxiety research, however, protocols and measures have yet to be reported. Accordingly, we describe the development of a dot-probe measure of attentional bias for test anxiety. This measure was piloted on a sample of undergraduate students who completed a short, timed, cognitive ability test under high and low performance-evaluation threat conditions. As expected, highly test anxious persons reported an attentional bias towards threat stimuli under the high performance-evaluation threat condition only, consistent with a switch from an avoidant to a vigilant mode of processing. Under the low performance-evaluation threat condition, both high and low test anxious persons showed a bias away from threat stimuli. These findings suggest that test anxiety, like clinical and high trait anxiety is also characterised by attentional bias where a disproportionate amount of attentional resource is directed towards corresponding threat (i.e. test-related) stimuli. (Contains 1 table and 2 figures.) (As Provided).
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