Abstract
Abstract This prospective study investigated the role of evaluative anxiety and coping processes as predictors of affective and cognitive adaptational outcomes in a sample of 241 college students preparing for midterm examinations. Data were collected on students' test anxiety and coping resources, conceptualized as antecedent predictor variables, during the semester period. Data on situation-specific coping strategies and state anxiety, serving respectively as mediating and outcomes variables, were collected prior to an important semester exam. Data on students' overall achievement on semester exams, serving as outcome variable, was obtained towards the end of the examination period. A path analysis showed that when controlling for the effects of other variables in the model, coping resurces and emotionfocused coping had a substantial direct effect on students' state anxiety in an evaluative situation. Furthermore, both the Worry and Emotionality components of test anxiety, as a situation-specific trait,...
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