• DOI:10.1037/0022-3514.46.4.929
Corpus ID: 26118806

Stress, anxiety, and cognitive interference: reactions to tests.

@article{Sarason1984StressAA,
  title={Stress, anxiety, and cognitive interference: reactions to tests.},
  author={I. Sarason},
  journal={Journal of personality and social psychology},
  year={1984},
  volume={46 4},
  pages={
          929-38
        }
}

• I. Sarason
• Published 1984
• Medicine
• Journal of personality and social psychology

The nature of test anxiety and its relationships to performance and cognitive interference are analyzed from the standpoint of attentional processes. A new instrument to assess dimensions of reactions to tests is presented, and its psychometric properties are described. The scales of the Reactions to Tests questionnaire (Worry, Tension, Test-Irrelevant Thinking, Bodily Symptoms) were compared with regard to intellective performance and cognitive interference. The results were consistent with… Expand

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