Future-Time Gradients for Performance in Test Anxious Individuals
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The results showed that the highly anxious individuals tended to decrease the number of problems solved correctly as a future goal (task) approached in time and that the slopes of the negative goal gradients decreased as the test-anxiety dispositions of the individuals decreased.
Abstract
It was assumed that highly anxious individuals should have a negative goal gradient for future performance and that this negative goal gradient should be reduced as the test-anxiety dispositions of the individuals decreased. The results for 392 grade school (6th) students showed, as expected, that (a) the highly anxious individuals (n = 55) tended to decrease the number of problems solved correctly as a future goal (task) approached in time and that (b) the slopes of the negative goal gradients decreased as the test-anxiety dispositions decreased. When number of problems attempted was the measure of performance (c) ther was a tendency for Ss of low anxiety (n = 101) to increase their performance as the goal approached.