“I must make the grade!”: the role of cognitive appraisals, irrational beliefs, exam anxiety, and affect, in the academic self-concept of undergraduate students
(2024)
Journal Article
Turner, M. J., Evans, A. L., Fortune, G., & Chadha, N. J. (in press). “I must make the grade!”: the role of cognitive appraisals, irrational beliefs, exam anxiety, and affect, in the academic self-concept of undergraduate students. Anxiety, Stress and Coping, 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2024.2360732
Background and objectives
Examination anxiety is a common occurrence, and is potentially detrimental to student attainment. In recent theorizing, it has been suggested that cognitive appraisals, as put forth in cognitive appraisal theory, and irrati...
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