Test anxiety in intellectually gifted school students

Anxiety, Stress and Coping

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 163-189

  Zeidner, Moshe ^a   Schleyer, Esther Jane ^b  

^a Faculty of Education   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Contextual factors; Educational settings; Gifted students; Intelligence; Text anxiety

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033451144     PISSN: 10615806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10615809908248328     Document Type: Article

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