Future-time gradients for performance in test anxious individuals.
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.
D000124:Achievement; D001007:Anxiety / Q000150:complications*; D001143:Arousal; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D009042:Motivation; D013334:Students; D013732:Test Anxiety Scale; D013998:Time Perception