Test Anxiety Theory, Assessment, and Treatment

Contributors.  Foreword.  Preface.  Part I: Test Anxiety, Theory, and Measurement  1. Test Anxiety: A Transactional Process Model Charles D. Spielberger and Peter R. Vagg  2. Measurement of Test Anxiety: An Overview Scarvia B. Anderson and William I. Sauser, Jr.  3. An Evaluation of Test Anxiety Scales: Convergent, Divergent, and Predictive Validity Jeffrey R. Bedell and Herbert A. Marlowe  4. Theory and Measurement of Test Anxiety as a Situation-Specific Trait Volker Hodapp, Peter G. Glanzmann and Lothar Laux  Part II: Antecedents, Correlates, and Consequences of Test Anxiety  5. Case Studies of Test-Anxious Students William D. Anton and E. Michael Lillibridge  6. Test Anxiety, Hemispheric Lateralization, and Information Processing James D. Papsdorf, Jess H. Ghannam and John Jamieson  7. Perspectives on Mathematics Anxiety and Test Anxiety William D. Anton and Mark C. Klisch  8. Anxiety and Test Performance Samuel Ball  Part III: Research on the Treatment of Test Anxiety  9. Systematic Desensitization, Study Skills Counseling, and Anxiety-Coping Training in the Treatment of Test Anxiety Hector P. Gonzalez  10. Cognitive Therapy, Study Counseling, and Systematic Desensitization in the Treatment of Test Anxiety Benjamin Algaze  11. Comparison of Cognitive Therapy and Rational–Emotive Therapy in the Treatment of Test Anxiety Tucker M. Fletcher and Charles D. Spielberger  12. Systematic Desensitization, Cognitive Coping, and Biofeedback in the Reduction of Test Anxiety John C. Parker, IV, Peter Vagg, and James D. Papsdorf  13. Cognitive Therapy, Study Skills Training, and Biofeedback in the Treatment of Test Anxiety Peter R. Vagg and James D. Papsdorf  Part IV: Theory-Based Treatment of Test Anxiety  14. Treatment of Test Anxiety: Application of the Transactional Process Model Peter R. Vagg and Charles D. Spielberger.  References.  Author Index.  Subject Index.

Biography

Charles D. Spielberger (1927–2013) was an American clinical community psychologist well-known for his development of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory.

Peter R. Vagg 

Review for the original edition:

“The unique contribution of [this book] is that it examines the processes that mediate the effects of interventions on anxiety and performance. …[It] represents a major step forward in research in this field. This book has made a major contribution to my own thinking, and I am confident that it will be useful to many others – those dealing with the practical problems of helping test-anxious students as well as investigators during research in the area.” – W. J. McKeachie, Ann Arbor, Michigan, from the Foreword