Full Description
Originally published in 1982, the purpose of this volume Achievement, Stress and Anxiety was to describe recent advances in achievement-related stress and anxiety research. The notion of achievement is broadly conceived and encompasses all activities in which individuals know that their performance is being evaluated (by themselves or by others). The volume is divided into five parts. Part I is concerned with theoretical and methodological issues. Part II investigates strategies of coping with stress. Part III deals with anxiety as the central emotion elicited in achievement situations. Part IV considers contributions from the areas of achievement motivation and attribution theory. Part V is concerned with recent developments of special methods and techniques in stress and anxiety research. Today it can be read in its historical context.
Contents
Contributors. Preface. Part I: Basic Problems 1. Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Achievement-related Stress and Anxiety Research Lothar Laux and Gerhard Vossel 2. Methodological Problems in Research on Stress Joseph E. McGrath Part II: Stress, Coping, and Performance 3. Regulatory Activity during States of Stress Peter Schulz and Wolfgang Schönpflug 4. Psychophysiological Aspects of Performance and Adjustment to Stress Ulf Lundberg 5. Learned Helplessness. Anxiety, and Achievement Motivation: Neglected Parallels in Cognitive, Affective, and Coping Responses Carol S. Dweck and Camille B. Wortman 6. Coping with Stress as a Problem-Solving Process Donald Meichenbaum, David Henshaw and Norman Himel Part III: Anxiety and Coping in Achievement Situations 7. Anxiety and Complex Learning Darlene L. Heinrich and Charles D. Spielberger 8. Repression-Sensitization as a Central Construct in Coping Research Heinz W. Krohne and Josef Rogner 9. Trait Anxiety and Cognitive Coping Behavior B. Kent Houston 10. Evaluation Anxiety: A Cognitive-Attentional Construct Jeri Dawn Wine Part IV: Achievement Motivation, Causal Attribution, and Anxiety 11. An Attribution Theory of Motivation and Emotion Bernard Weiner 12. Task-Irrelevant Cognitions during an Exam: Incidence and Effects Heinz Heckhausen 13. Fear Reactions and Achievement Behavior of Students Approaching an Examination Peter Becker 14. Aspiration Level and Causal Attribution under Noise Stimulation Wolfgang Schönpflug Part V: Methods in Stress and Anxiety Research 15. Methods for Studying Stressful Situations David Magnusson and Håkan Stattin 16. Self-Report Measures in Research on Job-Related Stress Geerd Weyer 17. Response Bias in the Measurement of Achievement and Stress: Applications of Signal Detection Theory Manfred Velden 18. Causal Inference from Nonexperimental Research on Anxiety and Educational Achievement Volker Hodapp. Author Index. Subject Index.
