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Copyright Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences 2011

Abstract

Students' cognitive appraisals of the relative importance of the test, the ability and skills necessary to successfully cope with the test situation, which arise from personal beliefs and personality traits, are the main source of emotions and their regulation. Emotional regulation during test taking can be carried out by focusing on the task or on the self and the emotions related to the task. The aim of this study was to examine the unique contributions of personality traits, cognitive appraisals, and emotions in explaining the two forms of emotional regulation in the test situations: task-focusing processes and emotion-focusing processes. The study included 295 students at the University of Zadar, mean age of 21 years. The results of hierarchical regression analyses showed that female students, those who are more optimistic and perceive a higher degree of control over the test situation, and have higher levels of self-efficacy for dealing with problems during test taking as well as more anxious students, use task-focusing processes to a larger extent. Students who perceived test situation as goal incongruent, and are less efficient when dealing with potential problems, and more anxious, are more prone to wishful thinking. Finally, perceived goal-incongruence, lower levels of self-efficacy to cope with potential problems, along with perceived controllability over test situation, and higher levels of test anxiety predicted the use of self-blame as a form of emotional regulation during test taking. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]

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Title
Strategije emocionalne regulacije u ispitnim situacijama: Doprinosi osobina licnosti, kognitivnih procjena i ispitnih emocija
Author
Buric, Irena; Soric, Izabela; Penezic, Zvjezdan
Pages
277-298
Section
Izvorni znanstveni rad
Publication year
2011
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
ISSN
13320742
e-ISSN
18490395
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English, Croatian
ProQuest document ID
1015334447
Copyright
Copyright Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences 2011