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Area of Science:

  • Educational Psychology
  • Student Well-being
  • Coping Mechanisms

Background:

  • Academic buoyancy is a key adaptive response to everyday academic challenges.
  • Understanding factors influencing test anxiety is crucial for student success.
  • Existing research highlights coping strategies but may overlook buoyancy's unique role.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if academic buoyancy explains variance in test anxiety beyond coping strategies.
  • To examine the relationship between academic buoyancy, coping, and test anxiety in secondary school students.

Main Methods:

  • A quantitative study involving 298 students in their final two years of compulsory schooling.
  • Self-report measures assessed academic buoyancy, coping styles (avoidance, task focus), and test anxiety.
  • Hierarchical regression analysis was employed to analyze the data.

Main Results:

  • Academic buoyancy showed an inverse relationship with test anxiety.
  • Test anxiety was positively associated with avoidance coping and social support (excluding test-irrelevant thoughts).
  • Academic buoyancy explained a significant additional proportion of variance in test anxiety after accounting for coping.

Conclusions:

  • Academic buoyancy is a distinct construct from adaptive coping.
  • Academic buoyancy offers a unique protective factor against test anxiety in students.
  • Interventions aimed at enhancing academic buoyancy may help mitigate test anxiety.