Attention Bias in Test Anxiety: The Impact of a Test-Threat Congruent Situation, Presentation Time, and Approach-Avoidance Temperament

Autor/inn/en	Putwain, David W.; Symes, Wendy; Coxon, Elaine; Gallard, Diahann
Titel	Attention Bias in Test Anxiety: The Impact of a Test-Threat Congruent Situation, Presentation Time, and Approach-Avoidance Temperament
Quelle	In: Educational Psychology, 40 (2020) 6, S.713-734 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Putwain, David W.) ORCID (Gallard, Diahann)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0144-3410
DOI	10.1080/01443410.2020.1740653
Schlagwörter	Test Anxiety; Bias; Personality Traits; Psychological Patterns; Foreign Countries; Cognitive Processes; Stimuli; Secondary School Students; Late Adolescents; High Stakes Tests; Likert Scales; Attention Control; Cognitive Tests; United Kingdom (England); State Trait Anxiety Inventory + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Examination phobia; Testangst; Prüfungsangst; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Ausland; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Anreizsystem; Sekundarschüler; Halbstarker; Likert-Skala; Aufmerksamkeitstest; Kognitiver Fähigkeitstest
Abstract	Previous studies have shown that test anxiety is related to attention bias. It is not clear, however, whether a congruent test-threat manipulation is required to elicit this bias or whether the bias is a result of automatic or conscious processes. In the present study we used a mood induction procedure to examine attention bias in test anxious persons using a dot-probe task and incorporated approach-avoidance temperament as a possible moderator. Results showed that the mood induction procedure was not effective in manipulating state anxiety. In the absence of an effective test-threat manipulation, high test anxious persons showed attention bias towards supraliminal threat stimuli. Attention bias was only shown to subliminal threat stimuli in high test anxious persons with a strong approach temperament. This suggests that the mechanism for attention bias to threat stimuli in high test anxious persons is a result of both automatic and conscious processes. (As Provided).
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