A policy-capturing study of the contextual antecedents of test anxiety

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 243-248

  Reeve, Charlie L ^a   Bonaccio, Silvia ^b   Charles, Jennifer E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Policy capturing; Reactions to tests; State anxiety; Test anxiety

Indexed keywords

EID: 44649112429     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2008.04.006     Document Type: Article

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