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The Relationship Among High School Students' Personality Trait, Achievement Objective, Coping Style And Test Anxiety

Posted on:2011-01-26Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:R YaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2167360308957340Subject:Development and educational psychology
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Test anxiety is one of the familiar negative emotions in high school students. The excessive and perennial test anxiety is harmful to the psychological and physical health of high school students. This study probes into the relationship among Senior School Students'Personality Trait, Achievement Objective, Coping Style and Test Anxiety by investigating 404 high school students in the city of LiaoCheng. The conclusions as following:(1)There are 66.6% students had the test anxiety , and 31.8% had the excessive test anxiety. Test anxiety of high school students condition is serious.(2)The check-out rate of test anxiety of high school students had significant gender differences.Test anxiety of high school students had significant grade differences.Test anxiety of high school students had no significant difference between art and science.Test anxiety of high school students had no significant difference between town and country.Test anxiety of high school students had no significant difference between the only child or not.(3)There existed a remarkable relation between high school students'achievement objective and test anxiety. High school students'achievement-avoidance can obviously predict test anxiety.(4)There existed a remarkable relation between high school students'coping style and test anxiety. Test anxiety of high school students has significant positive relation to the unmature coping style, the mixed coping style and has significant negative relation to the more mature coping style. High school students'unmature coping style can obviously predict test anxiety.(5)There existed a remarkable relation between high school students'personality trait and test anxiety. Test anxiety of high school students has significant positive relation to neuroticism and has significant negative relation to extraversion, openness, conscientiousness. High school students'personality trait of neuroticism can obviously predict test anxiety.(6)High school students'achievement objective affected test anxiety directly. At the same time,personality trait also impacted test anxiety indirectly through achievement objective. Achievement objective had mediate effect between personality trait and test anxiety.(7)High school students'coping style affected test anxiety directly. At the same time,personality trait also impacted test anxiety indirectly through coping style. Coping style had mediate effect between personality trait and test anxiety.
Keywords/Search Tags:test anxiety, personality trait, achievement objective, coping style, high school students
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