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Putwain, DW, Symes, W, Coxon, E and Gallard, D (2020) Attention Bias in Test Anxiety: The Impact of a Test-threat Congruent Situation, Presentation Time, and Approach-avoidance Temperament. Educational Psychology, 40 (6). pp. 713-734. ISSN 0144-3410
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Abstract
Previous studies have shown that test anxiety is related to attention bias. It is not clear, however, whether a congruent test-threat manipulation is required to elicit this bias or whether the bias is a result of automatic or conscious processes. In the present study we used a mood induction procedure to examine attention bias in test anxious persons using a dot-probe task and incorporated approach-avoidance temperament as a possible moderator. Results showed that the mood induction procedure was not effective in manipulating state anxiety. In the absence of an effective test-threat manipulation, high test anxious persons showed attention bias towards supraliminal threat stimuli. Attention bias was only shown to subliminal threat stimuli in high test anxious persons with a strong approach temperament. This suggests that the mechanism for attention bias to threat stimuli in high test anxious persons is a result of both automatic and conscious processes.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Educational Psychology on 26 Mar 2020, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/01443410.2020.1740653 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | 1303 Specialist Studies in Education, 1701 Psychology, 1702 Cognitive Sciences |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology L Education > L Education (General) |
| Divisions: | Education |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Mar 2020 13:04 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Aug 2023 08:05 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.1080/01443410.2020.1740653 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/12433 |
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