Test-anxiety and blame-assignment in grade school children.

Abstract

"...an attempt was made to measure the relationship between test-anxiety in elementary school children and the propensity for self-blame assignment in regard to the experience of failure in a test situation...The general hypothesis...was that in a failure situation, high test-anxious S''s assing blame for a failure to themselves to a greater extent than do non-test-anxious S''s...The overall results... tend to support the hypothesis, but with qualifications that...change the perspective...of test-anxiety and blame assignment.".