Is the Relationship between Competence Beliefs and Test Anxiety Influenced by Goal Orientation?

Autor/inn/en	Putwain, David William; Daniels, Rachel Anne
Titel	Is the Relationship between Competence Beliefs and Test Anxiety Influenced by Goal Orientation?
Quelle	In: Learning and Individual Differences, 20 (2010) 1, S.8-13 (6 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1041-6080
DOI	10.1016/j.lindif.2009.10.006
Schlagwörter	Failure; Goal Orientation; Student Motivation; Fear; Test Anxiety; Correlation; Academic Achievement; Secondary School Students; Questionnaires; Beliefs; Self Concept; Academic Ability; Mathematics Skills; Verbal Ability; Peer Groups + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Zielorientierung; Zielvorstellung; Schulische Motivation; Furcht; Examination phobia; Testangst; Prüfungsangst; Korrelation; Schulleistung; Sekundarschüler; Fragebogen; Belief; Glaube; Selbstkonzept; Mathmatics achievement; Mathematics ability; Mathematische Kompetenz; Mündliche Leistung; Gleichaltrigengruppe; Peer Group
Abstract	The study described here aimed to examine the relations between test anxiety, competence beliefs and achievement goals, and in particular if the relations between competence beliefs and test anxiety were moderated by achievement goals. Pupils in their first year of secondary schooling completed self-report questionnaires for test anxiety, competence beliefs and achievement goals. Results indicated that pupils with low competence beliefs in Mathematics reported more worrisome thoughts when they held a mastery-avoidance goal and female pupils with low verbal competence beliefs reported more off-task behaviours when they held a performance-approach goal. Male pupils with low verbal competence beliefs reported fewer off-task behaviours when they held a performance-approach goal. These findings may reflect how Mathematics may be uniquely related to a fear of failure among school subjects and how the gendered nature of verbal self-concept becomes important when peer comparison is a salient goal for pupils. (Contains 2 figures and 3 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10