STATE-TRAIT COPING, STATE-TRAIT ANXIETY AND ACADEMIC-PERFORMANCE

Research on anxiety in an academic examination Situation has predomina ntly focused on making use of specific test anxiety models and measure s. The present study focused on multidimensional trait anxiety and cop ing styles and their relationship with situation specific coping respo nses, state anxiety and academic performance. It was expected that Soc ial Evaluation trait anxiety and Emotion oriented coping would be sign ificant positive predictors of state anxiety in a stressful examinatio n situation. it was also expected that these variables would be negati ve predictors of academic performance, Task oriented coping was expect ed to be a positive predictor of grades in the stress situation. The r esults found that state anxiety is predicted by Social Evaluation trai t anxiety, Emotion oriented coping response, and Avoidance oriented co ping response; a relatively strong relationship was found between spec ific coping styles and situation specific coping responses. Exam grade was related to the Task coping dimension but only for men.