title: [Test anxiety: various aspects].
abstract: "Academic achievement anxiety" (or "test anxiety") is a situation-specific anxiety. In this research, 53 medical student were subjected to the McNair et al. POMS (an inventory assessing six identifiable mood or affective states) during their psychology examination; 31 of them had been tested with the POMS also 50-70 days before the examination and the other 22 repeated the test 50-70 days after it. All the emotional states increased significantly during the examination, except the Anger-Hostility factor; the significance of the "period effect" for the Confusion-Bewilderment factor shows there is a state of confusion due to the novelty of the test.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Farnè
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sebellico
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology*; D004521:Educational Measurement; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000523:psychology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
vernacular_title: Ansia da esami: suoi vari aspetti.