Test anxiety and cardiovascular responses to daily academic stressors

Stress and Health

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 41-50

  Conley, Kristen M ^a   Lehman, Barbara J ^a  

^a WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

academic stress; ambulatory blood pressure monitoring; physiological stress reactivity; psychological stress; test anxiety

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; EXAMINATION; EXAMINATION ANXIETY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; SELF REPORT; STRESS; STUDENT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADULT; ANXIETY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING, AMBULATORY; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STUDENTS; TEST ANXIETY SCALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856093719     PISSN: 15323005     EISSN: 15322998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smi.1399     Document Type: Article

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