Test Anxiety, Wellbeing, Buoyancy, Adaptability, and Mental Health Risk

Adaptability scale (Martin et al., 2012) labeled A in the dataset. In addition socio-demographic data was collected for gender (male or female), age, and ethnic heritage (Asian, Black, White, Other/ mixed heritage). Missing data were coded as 999.

Data were saved as an SPSS .sav file (that includes all items for the above scales, response ranges and anchors, and the categorical coding for the aforementioned socio-demographic data. The principal research question was as follows: Is test anxiety reciprocally related to wellbeing, buoyancy, adaptability, and mental health risk? We hypothesised that test anxiety would be positively related to mental health risk, and negatively related to wellbeing, buoyancy and adaptability; all relations were expected to be directional.

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