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Achievement, stress, and anxiety

Title
Achievement, stress, and anxiety / edited by Heinz W. Krohne and Lothar Laux.
Publication
Washington : Hemisphere Pub. Corp., ©1982.

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Additional Authors
  • Krohne, Heinz W.
  • Laux, Lothar, 1944-
Description
xii, 388 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
"In our Western societies, stress and anxiety, especially in achievement situations, have become important issues. There is a general concern about the adverse effects of stress and anxiety on academic achievement and other aspects of human behavior. The purpose of this volume is to describe recent advances in achievement-related stress and anxiety research."--Xi (preface).
Series Statement
The Series in clinical and community psychology, 0146-0846
Uniform Title
Series in clinical and community psychology.
Subject
  • Achievement motivation
  • Stress (Psychology)
  • Anxiety
  • Test anxiety
  • Success
  • Achievement
  • Anxiety
  • Stress, Psychological
  • Test Anxiety
  • anxiety
  • Success
  • Achievement motivation
  • Test anxiety
  • Angst
  • Angstbewältigung
  • Leistung
  • Leistungsangst
  • Leistungsmotivation
  • Stress
  • Stressbewältigung
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
  • Contributors -- Preface -- I. Basic problems. Theoretical and methodological issues in achievement-related stress and anxiety research / Lothar Laux, Gerhard Vossel -- Methodological problems in research on stress / Joseph E. McGrath -- II. Stress, coping, and performance. Regulatory activity during states of stress / Peter Schulz, Wolfgang Schönpflug -- Psychophysiological aspects of performance and adjustment to stress / Ulf Lundberg -- Learned helplessness, anxiety, and achievement motivation: neglected parallels in cognitive, affective, and coping responses / Carol S. Dweck, Camille B. Wortman -- Coping with stress as a problem-solving process / Donald Meichenbaum, David Henshaw, Norman Himel -- III. Anxiety and coping in achievement situations. Anxiety and complex learning / Darlene L. Heinrich, Charles D. Spielberger -- Repression-sensitization as a central construct in coping research / Heinz W. Krohne, Josef Rogner -- Trait anxiety and cognitive coping behavior / B. Kent Houston -- Evaluation anxiety: a cognitive-attentional construct / Jeri Dawn Wine.
  • Part IV. Achievement motivation, causal attribution, and anxiety. An attribution theory of motivation and emotion / Bernard Weiner -- Task-irrelevant cognitions during an exam: incidence and effects / Heinz Heckhausen -- Fear reactions and achievement behavior of students approaching an examination / Peter Becker -- Aspiration level and causal attribution under noise stimulation / Wolfgant Schönpflug -- Part V. Methods in stress and anxiety research. Methods for studying stressful situations / David Magnusson and Håkan Stattin -- Self-report measures in research on job-related stress / Geerd Weyer -- Response bias in the measurement of achievement and stress: applications of signal detection theory / Manfred Velden -- Causal inference from nonexperimental research on anxiety and educational achievement / Volker Hodapp -- Author index -- Subject index.
ISBN
  • 0891161872
  • 9780891161875
  • 0070355212 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
79028840
OCLC
  • ocm05942850
  • 5942850
  • SCSB-75202
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library