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An Examination Of The Role Of School Climate In Adolescent Test Anxiety, Lea Ann Imasa
An Examination Of The Role Of School Climate In Adolescent Test Anxiety, Lea Ann Imasa
Wayne State University Dissertations
The purpose of this study was to examine intrapersonal and contextual variables in relation to test anxiety among adolescents. Participants (n=298) were students in grades seven and eight from a middle school in a suburb in southeastern Michigan. Academic self-concept was found to fully mediate the relation between academic performance (as measured by GPA) and test anxiety. The intrapersonal variables of perceived threat of tests, effortful control, and academic self-concept significantly predicted test anxiety. The contextual variables were unrealistic parental expectations and school climate. Unrealistic parental expectations was a predictor of test anxiety in a regression model including only those …