Adaptability vs. Buoyancy: Which Offers the Greater Protection Against Test Anxiety and Could Relations be Reciprocal?

Putwain, D, Beaumont, J and Gallard, D (2022) Adaptability vs. Buoyancy: Which Offers the Greater Protection Against Test Anxiety and Could Relations be Reciprocal? Learning and Individual Differences, 101. ISSN 1041-6080

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Abstract

In the present study we ask which of academic buoyancy and adaptability offers a greater degree of protection from test anxiety and whether academic buoyancy/adaptability relate to test anxiety in a reciprocal fashion. Data were collected in two waves from 1198 participants in upper secondary education. A structural equation model showed that academic buoyancy predicted subsequent all components of test anxiety. In contrast, adaptability only predicted tension, but with a negligible regression coefficient. Reciprocal relations were shown for the worry component of test anxiety but not adaptability. We concluded that academic buoyancy offered greater protection from test anxiety than adaptability. Adaptive regulation of cognition, behaviour, and emotion, may assist students to become more buoyant and less anxious in the face of exam pressures.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Education; 1303 Specialist Studies in Education; 1701 Psychology
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology L Education > L Education (General)
Divisions:	Education
Publisher:	Elsevier
Date of acceptance:	23 November 2022
Date of first compliant Open Access:	12 December 2022
Date Deposited:	25 Nov 2022 10:46
Last Modified:	11 Aug 2023 08:10
DOI or ID number:	10.1016/j.lindif.2022.102247
URI:	https://ljmu-9.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/18214

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