Test anxiety, susceptibility to distraction and examination performance

Anxiety, Stress and Coping

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 241-252

  Keogh, Edmund ^a   Bond, Frank W ^b   French, Christopher C ^b   Richards, Anne ^c   Davis, Robert E ^b  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognitive bias; Distraction; Examinations; Test anxiety; Worry

Indexed keywords

EID: 6344253481     PISSN: 10615806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10615300410001703472     Document Type: Article

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