A Study On Relationship Among Senior Students' Test Anxiety And Achievement Attribution And Meta-worry

Many studies have confirmed that test anxiety has negative influence of teenagers. Due to the high school entrance exam, high school students have more serious test anxiety. Study of test anxiety and achievement attribution have proved that students with high test anxiety have unfavorable achievement attribution, Study of test anxiety and meta-worry have proved that students with high test anxiety also have high meta-worry. Since both individual cognitive aspects, and have connection with great anxiety, then what have the three? Based on reading a lot of English and Chinese literature, the relationship among these was studied.Using questionnaires, researcher survey to 147 senior middle students. Using correlation analysis and inspection, regression analysis, study the relationships among the three.The results revealed that:(1) Senior students'meta-worry, achievement attribution and test anxiety are positively correlated. All dimensions of meta-worry are positively correlated with test anxiety. Meta-worry is positively correlated with failure ability attribution and failure background attribution. Test anxiety is positively correlated with successful luck attribution and failure background attribution.(2) )Failure ability attribution and meta-worry of exam course proved to be a strong predictor of test anxiety, which meta-worry of exam course control completely mediated the role of failure ability attribution played on test anxiety.(3) There were differences of meta-worry and achievement attribution among different test anxiety level. Specifically, students with medium test anxiety have significantly higher meta-worry than students with low test anxiety, students with high test anxiety have significantly higher meta-worry than students with medium test anxiety, in other words with increasing test anxiety level, meta-worry also raise. Students with high test anxiety have more achievement attribution than students with medium test anxiety.(4) There were differences of test anxiety and meta-worry among different gender: girls had higher test anxiety and meta-worry than boys. Girls had higher scores of social evaluation and destiny dimensions than boys.(5)There were differences of test anxiety and meta-worry among different academic achievement: for test anxiety, poor grades and secondary students had higher test anxiety scores than higher grades and the poorest students. For meta-worry, only good students have low meta-worry level, the other students are relatively high level of it.