Hope, goal-blocking thoughts, and test-related anxieties.
Based on Onwuegbuzie's 1998 findings pertaining to the relationship of lower scores on hope to higher ones on anxiety about statistics, a brief overview of the etiology of test-related anxieties in the context of Snyder's hope theory is given, and the utility of hope theory for helping students with test-related anxieties is explored.
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Department of Psychology, University of Kansas, Lawrence 66045-2462, USA. crsnyder@ukans.edu
D000293:Adolescent; D001007:Anxiety / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D006040:Goals; D006801:Humans; D013732:Test Anxiety Scale; D013850:Thinking