Test Anxiety, Electromyographic Response to Stress and Reflective Gaze Preference

摘要

One assumption underlying desensitization approaches to treating test anxiety is that test-anxious persons are, in fact, muscularly tense during stressful evaluative experiences. The present study investigated frontalis muscle tension of high and low test-anxious Ss during a stressful mental task. The two groups had similar fontralis tension levels, a finding which does not support the view that text anxiety is caused by physiological overarousal. In addition, data from another part of the experiment suggested that test-anxious individuals have a characteristic reflective gaze preferences which may be linked to dominance of the right cerebral hemisphere. (Author)