title: Approach/avoidance motives, test emotions, and emotional regulation related to testing.
abstract: This research stems from our program of work that focuses on understanding how students regulated their emotions related to testing. The primary goal for this study was to incorporate the approach/ avoidance motives into a model of emotional regulation related to testing. In addition, a secondary goal was to report on efforts at construct validation of the scores obtained during the refinement of the Emotional Regulation Related to Testing (ERT) Scale. Our results suggest that underlying beliefs, such as approach/avoid motives and the cognitive-appraisal process, of the ERT had both direct and indirect effects to both pleasant and unpleasant emotions related to testing. In addition, the ERT accounted for 56% of the variance in Pleasant and 87% of Unpleasant Test Emotions.
authors.affiliation: UTSA, Department of Counseling, Educational, San Antonio, TX 78207-4415, USA. paul.schutz@utsa.edu
authors.forename: Paul A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Schutz
authors.forename: Jeri
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Benson
authors.forename: Jessica T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Decuir-Gunby
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology; D004521:Educational Measurement; D004644:Emotions; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D013732:Test Anxiety Scale; D014481:United States