Junior High School Students Test Anxiety, Coping Styles And Their Correlation

This study reviews the feature of test anxiety, the ways of coping and the relations between them by means of questionnaire and private interviews, which take 452 junior middle school students as subjects. The results concludes that:1. In terms of test anxiety, most students' scores of test anxiety are normal, but there are still 20.8 per cent students suffering from much higher test anxiety. There is no significant difference among schools, grades and genders for all the subjects. However there are different developing trends for students of different schools, and different school features for students of different grades.2. Before test, junior middle school students usually cope the test with 7 ways of coping, including: problem solving, calming, venting, illusion/escape, self-blaming, bearing, feeling pouring.There are significant school differences in venting, illusion/escape, feeling pouring; significant grade differences in problem solving, venting, bearing, self-blaming; and significant gender differences in problem solving, calming, venting, feeling pouring .3. The scores of test anxiety are positively correlated with scores on venting, bearing, illusion/escape, self-blaming, and they are negatively correlated with scores on problem solving, calming.The lower the scores of test anxiety ,the more possible for students to cope the test with the way of problem solving, calming, feeling pouring; otherwise they tend to cope the test with the way of venting, illusion/escape, bearing, self-blaming .