This research is designed to examine (1) how father attachment, mother attachment, peer attachment and self-efficacy influence test anxiety; (2) how attachments, self-efficacy and test anxiety are related with each other. 585 female and male first an...
This research is designed to examine (1) how father attachment, mother attachment, peer attachment and self-efficacy influence test anxiety; (2) how attachments, self-efficacy and test anxiety are related with each other. 585 female and male first and second year high school students in Seoul answer the questionnaire. The result demonstrates that father attachment, mother attachment and peer attachment influence test anxiety either directly or indirectly through the extraneous variable of self-efficacy.
Firstly, the influence of peer attachment on test anxiety among female students is stronger than the influence among male students.
Secondly, the stronger father attachment, mother attachment and peer attachment are, the higher is the level of self-efficacy. Particularly, peer attachment rather than parents attachment is related to social self-efficacy. In other words, the stronger peer attachment is, the higher is the level of social self-efficacy.
Thirdly, the more a student has self-efficacy, the lower is the level of test anxiety.
Fourthly, the higher the level of father attachment, mother attachment and peer attachment is, the lower is the level of self-efficacy.
Lastly, self-efficacy plays the partial role of extraneous variable in the relationship between father attachment and test anxiety. However, the role of self-efficacy is relatively small in the relationship between mother and peer attachments and test anxiety.