Relations between hope and graduate students' coping strategies for studying and examination-taking.
In 1998, Onwuegbuzie reported a negative relationship between scores on hope and anxiety about statistics among graduate students who were enrolled in statistics classes. In 1999, Snyder posited that hope theory provides a useful framework for assessing students' coping strategies. In support of the utility of hope theory for identifying students with debilitating test-related anxieties, lower scores on the Pathways and Agency subscales which assess hope were related to 87 graduate students' problematic coping strategies for studying and taking statistics examinations. After a brief review of other recent data linking hope to academic performance at both public school and college levels, further research seems appropriate.
Onwuegbuzie
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AJ
Department of Educational Leadership, College of Education, Valdosta State University, GA 31698, USA. TONWUEGB@VALDOSTA.EDU
Snyder
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CR
D000124:Achievement; D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology; D001290:Attitude; D006801:Humans; D009042:Motivation; D010555:Personality Inventory; D013223:Statistics as Topic / Q000193:education; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*