The Relationship Between Psychological Control Sources, Psychological Flexibility And Test Anxiety Of Junior High School Students

Test anxiety has been an important topic among experts and the public.Most researchers concentrate on the influencing factors of test anxiety in the two aspects—individual factors and environmental factors.In recent years,the academic self-efficacy,distraction and achievement motivation has attracted a lot of attention,but few people focus on the relationship between locus of control,mental resilience and test anxiety.As vital psychological factors and energy,locus of control and mental resilience not only affect the individual's psychological changes and behavior development,but also relate to their ability of adapting different setbacks,which coincides with the original intention of reducing students' test anxiety.This research adopts the overall random sampling method to select 480 junior high school students as the research object,takes IPC?RSCA and TAS questionnaires as a tool,uses variance analysis,regression analysis and statistical method of intermediary effect and studies the interrelation among the locus of control,psychological resilience and test anxiety in junior high school.The results showed as followings:(1)The overall anxiety level of junior middle school students is high,but the differences in gender,grade,family background and family situation are not significant;(2)Junior high school students' gender differences in the psychological control source is very significant.In the internal control factors,girls scored significantly higher than boys,however,in the powerful others and chance factors,boys scored significantly higher than girls;(3)Gender differences in psychological resilience of middle school students is very significant.In the family support and social support dimensions,girls scored significantly higher than boys;(4)There is a significant negative correlation between internal locus of control and test anxiety,and there is a significant positive correlation between the influence of others?chance factors and test anxiety;(5)There is a significant negative correlation between the psychological resilience and test anxiety of junior high school students;(6)Junior high school students' internal locus of control and psychological resilience were significantly positively correlated,however the influence of others?chance factors and psychological resilience were significantly negatively correlated;(7)The psychological resilience acts as a significant intermediary role between the locus of control and test anxiety.