Emotional working memory capacity in test anxiety

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 32, Issue , 2014, Pages 178-183

  Shi, Zhan ^a   Gao, Xin ^b   Zhou, Renlai ^a,c  

^a Southeast University   (China)

^b NORTH MINZU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Emotional working memory capacity; Reading span; Test anxiety; Test related context

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899903191     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: 18733425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2014.03.011     Document Type: Article

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