Studying in North America: A Potential Antidote to Test Anxiety in Chinese Students

Abstract

As a considerable number of Chinese students suffer from test anxiety, we aimed to find a solution to test anxiety in Chinese students. We conducted an empirical study, in which we replicated the experiment in Min et al. (2022)’s study [1], to examine predictors of test anxiety and whether studying in North America could alleviate test anxiety withN= 85 participants. As predicted, Chinese students studying in North America had less test anxiety than studying in other countries. In addition, older Chinese students were more likely to have high test anxiety.