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Does repetitive negative thinking mediate the relationship between perfectionistic concerns and cognitive test anxiety?
- Source :
- Anxiety, Stress, & Coping. 35:662-672
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2021.
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Abstract
- Test anxiety, particularly cognitive test anxiety, is negatively associated with academic performance. Previous research has demonstrated that higher levels of perfectionistic concerns predict higher levels of cognitive test anxiety but has not explored potential mediators of this relationship. This study investigated whether repetitive negative thinking mediated the relationship between perfectionistic concerns and cognitive test anxiety in a non-clinical, academic sample.Participants were Australian university students (Mediation analysis yielded a total model accounting for 43.5% of variance in cognitive TA. Perfectionistic concerns significantly accounted for 10.6% of variance direction (Findings demonstrate that RNT significantly mediates the relationship between perfectionistic concerns and cognitive test anxiety in this sample. Importantly, these findings may direct future studies towards investigating the effectiveness of targeting repetitive negative thinking in interventions to mitigate levels of cognitive test anxiety.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Adolescent
Anxiety
Neuropsychological Tests
medicine.disease_cause
Young Adult
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Negatively associated
Developmental and Educational Psychology
medicine
Humans
Test anxiety
Australia
Perfectionism (psychology)
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Cognitive test
Pessimism
Psychiatry and Mental health
Clinical Psychology
Test Anxiety
Negative thinking
Female
medicine.symptom
Psychology
Clinical psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14772205 and 10615806
- Volume :
- 35
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Anxiety, Stress, & Coping
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....87141b4c9eef9ee9a174d9e4481c7ea7