Prediction of test anxiety by emotion regulation and perfectionism of high school students

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the regulation of emotion in anxiety and perfectionism in middle school students a sample of 192 first-year students from all high schools in the city of Sanandaj academic year 90-91 cluster sampling method was chosen. Data collection included three questionnaires, Scale problem in the regulation of emotions, both positive and negative perfectionism scale- of (soert and colleagues- and test anxiety). The findings obtained from the results regression analysis anticipated stepwise of correlation coefficient showed that there was a significant positive correlation between the negative perfectionism and emotion regulation with test anxiety. But this correlation is different between boys and girls, anxiety was higher in girls than boys. The results show that using a variables of emotion regulation and perfectionism, students’ test anxiety can be predicted.

Keywords

• emotion regulation
• test anxiety
• perfectionism