Psychological topics, Vol. 17 No. 1, 2008.
Original scientific paper
Automatic Thoughts and Test Anxiety as Determinants of Objective and Subjective Academic Achievement
Tamara Mohorić
orcid.org/0000-0002-5274-1850
; Odsjek za psihologiju, Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Rijeci
Abstract
The aim of the present study was to determine the relationship between academic achievement and its cognitive and emotional determinants i.e. the goal was to examine the relationship of achievement, automatic thoughts and test anxiety in Croatian university students. Participants were students in their 2nd, 3rd and 4th year of study at the University of Rijeka and Zagreb. The results show that there is a significant correlation between automatic thoughts, test anxiety and students’ academic achievement. Those students who reported fewer automatic thoughts and lower level of cognitive test anxiety had better college achievement, measured as a grade point average. When achievement is measured via subjective appraisal (self-satisfaction), the results are similar. This means that students who are more content with themselves seldom report negative automatic thoughts and have fewer symptoms of test anxiety. The results also showed a significant difference in the frequency of automatic thoughts between high and low test-anxious students. There was no difference in grade point average between high and low test-anxious students, but there was significant difference in self-satisfaction.
Keywords
automatic thoughts; test anxiety; worry; emotionality; academic achievement
Hrčak ID:
32449
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Publication date:
1.12.2008.
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