Self-Efficacy, gender and trait anxiety as moderators of test anxiety;Auto-eficacia, sexo y rasgo de ansiedad como moderadores de la ansiedad ante exámenes

Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 299-312

  Onyeizugbo, Euckay U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Gender; Self efficacy; Test anxiety; Trait anxiety; University students

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957145263     PISSN: 16995880     EISSN: 16962095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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