Imagery-based Treatment for Test Anxiety: A Multiple-baseline Open Trial

Test anxiety (TA), a condition which affects as many as 20% of students (see Hill& Wigfield, 1984; Holm-Hadulla et al., 2009), involves excessive negative thoughts about poor performance or failure in exams or other situations characterized by evaluation, as well as about the possible consequences of such performance. Students with high TA are more likely to be female, and have perfectionistic tendencies, which are maladaptive or unhelpful (Eum& Rice, 2011). TA is manifested in phenomenological, physiological, and behavioral responses (Zeidner, 1998; Zeidner& Matthews, 2011).

Source: Journal of Affective Disorders - October 6, 2018 Category: Neurology Authors: Jessica N. Prinz, Eran Bar-Kalifa, Eshkol Rafaeli, Haran Sened, Wolfgang Lutz Tags: Research paper Source Type: research