Role of academic self-efficacy in moderating the relation between task importance and test anxiety

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 736-741

  Nie, Youyan ^a   Lau, Shun ^b   Liau, Albert K ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Academic self efficacy; Moderation; Task importance; Test anxiety

Indexed keywords

EID: 80755189948     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: 18733425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2011.09.005     Document Type: Article

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