The administration of the Dutch adaptation of the Spielberger Test Anxiety Inventory to secondary school children has been described. The debilitating effects of high test anxiety, and especially of the worry component, on performance were nested in the upper range of intelligence. Boys and girls with lower intelligence achieved less and were less influenced by the impairing effects of test anxiety.
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