Behavioral time-sampling was compared with various paper-and-pencil, self-report measures of test anxiety in an examination of the utility of the behavioral measure as an in situo index of test anxiety. The behavioral measure was significantly and positively correlated 0.45 with a paper-and-pencil, self-report measure of “facilitative” test anxiety but not with measures of “debilitative” test anxiety (r = —0.15) or general anxiety (r = —0.33) for 12 male and 21 female undergraduates.
Get full access to this article
View all access options for this article.
References
1.
AlpertR.HaberR.Anxiety in academic achievement situations. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 1960, 61, 207–215.
2.
EysenckH.The questionnaire measurement of neuroticism and extraversion. Revista di Psychologia, 1956, 54, 113–140.
3.
GeerJ.The development of a scale to measure fear. Behavior Research and Therapy, 1965, 3, 45–53.
4.
SarasonI.KoenigK.The relationship of test anxiety and hostility to description of self and parents. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1965, 2, 617–621.
5.
SnyderC.Amount of body movement as an indicant of task-irrelevant test-anxious responses. Journal of Psychology, 1972, 80, 147–150.
6.
SnyderC.RayW.Observed body movement in the college test-taking situation and scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971, 32, 265–266.
