A Study On Relationship Among Test Anxiety, Attention Network And Emotion Regulation Strategy Of Senior High School Student

In contemporary society, the test has very important significance for students.When facing the exam, the students would have anxiety more or less. The high schoolstudents will face the university entrance exam which is so important to them. Toexplore the test anxiety of senior high school students has realistic significance.Numerous studies have found that higher test anxiety will have negative effect onacademic achievement. Therefore, to improve test anxiety of individual has drawnattention of the public. In the past, many researches have found the relationshipbetween emotion regulation strategy and individual emotional experience. Unhealthyemotion regulation strategy may cause individuals experience more negative emotions.Thus individual who has different test anxiety levels may have different emotionregulation strategies.So we will study the differences in emotion regulation strategiesof individuals who have different test anxiety levels. With the deepening of theresearch, people found that attention is an important cognitive resources, and attentionhas close relationship with emotional experience. The individuals with high anxietyshow attention bias to threat information. But the past studies mostly regard theattention as a single process, not pay attention to detailed division. Ponser came upwith attention network theory which regarded the attention as alerting, orienting andexecutive control, three separated parts. This study attempts to discuss the differencesin attention network of different test anxiety from the angle of attention network. Soas to choose a better way to improve the test anxiety, which has important theoryvalue and application meaning.Based on the analysis of the previous theory and research, we find that theemotion regulation strategy and attention network are likely to have impact on testanxiety. So emotion regulation strategy and attention network may exist relationship. We hope that we can find internal connection between emotion regulation strategyand attention network. In this study we will try to investigate the relationship betweenthe attention network and emotion regulation strategy.In this study we randomly selected102students in SiPing high school as theresearch object. Two days before the exam, we used the state anxiety inventory toscreen out high and low test anxiety students. To explore the differences in attentionnetwork between high and low test anxiety of senior high school students. To explorethe differences in emotion regulation strategy between high and low test anxiety ofsenior high school students. We found that high anxiety individuals show highvigilance, low anxiety individuals produce low vigilance. There are differences inemotion regulation strategy between high and low test anxiety students. So thestuedents with different alerting network may have differences in emotion regulationstrategy. Therefore, we explore the relationship between attention network andemotion regulation strategy. At the same time, we used descriptive statistics, T test,correlation analysis to analysis the data. This research mainly draw the followingconclusions:(1) There are differences in emotion regulation strategy between high and lowtest anxiety students. The students with high test anxiety tend to use expressionsuppression strategy than the low students.(2) There are differences in attention network between high and low test anxietystudents. The students with high test anxiety show high alerting network efficiencythan the low anxiety students.(3) There are differences in emotion regulation strategy between high and lowalerting network students. The students with high alerting network efficiency tend touse expression suppression strategy than the low students.