Zavery, Alafia; Zäch, Myriam; Bertrams, Alex (2021). Test Anxiety in Autistic University Students—Preliminary Results from a German-Speaking Sample. Brain Sciences, 11(3), p. 390. MDPI 10.3390/brainsci11030390
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Autism is a neurodevelopmental condition associated with increased levels of anxiety. However, whether autism is related to heightened test anxiety as one situation-specific type of anxiety has not yet been examined. This question may be relevant for the achievement and well-being of autistic people in educational settings (e.g., at universities). In this study, we took a first step to investigate whether autistic university students have increased test anxiety. A sample of 16 German-speaking university students completed an established diagnostic instrument to measure test anxiety and its components of worry, emotionality, cognitive interference, and lack of confidence. The scores of the autistic students were compared with the test anxiety means and percentile ranks of the standardization sample for the applied test anxiety measure (n = 1350). For an additional comparison, the test anxiety means and percentile ranks of non-autistic university students (n = 101) were assessed during the last third of the semester; that is, close to the examinations. Overall, the results suggest that autistic university students have remarkably increased test anxiety. Although the present findings must be considered preliminary, they suggest that text anxiety in educational settings may be a neglected significant problem for autistic people that requires further attention in research and practice.
Item Type: |
Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Education > Educational Psychology |
UniBE Contributor: |
Zavery, Alafia Lisa-Marie, Zäch, Myriam Agnes Margarethe, Bertrams, Alexander Gregor |
Subjects: |
100 Philosophy > 150 Psychology 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 370 Education |
ISSN: |
2076-3425 |
Publisher: |
MDPI |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Alexander Gregor Bertrams-Pencik |
Date Deposited: |
13 Apr 2021 15:28 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 15:49 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.3390/brainsci11030390 |
BORIS DOI: |
10.48350/154477 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/154477 |
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