Test Anxiety Levels of Short and Long Sleeping College Students

Abstract

To clarify the interpretation of a difference in anxiety level that Hicks and Pellegrini (1977) had reported as being incongruent with Hartmann's (1973) description of the personalities of short and long sleepers, groups of 20 short- and long-sleeping college students were tested using a battery of anxiety tests which featured two test anxiety scales. Congruent with Hartmann's hypothesis that short sleepers value work as a defense, our short sleepers showed significantly higher levels of test anxiety on both scales. These data were considered against Hicks and Pellegrini's earlier results with the conclusion that those data actually support Hartmann's conclusions.