The Impact of College Students’ Emotional Intelligence and Achievement Motivation on Test Anxiety: A Case of 3 Colleges at Chongqing

Test anxiety is a special psychological reaction characterized by worry and tension under the excitation of test situations. In the environment of China's test-oriented education, there is a common phenomenon of test anxiety among students. Test anxiety is particularly acute in the context of the current coronavirus pandemic. It not only affects students' learning, but also has an important impact on their mental health, so the problem of test anxiety cannot be ignored. This study starts from the factors that affect test anxiety, explores the relationship between emotional intelligence, achievement motivation, and test anxiety of college students under the current background of the new coronavirus epidemic, and on this basis, discusses the influence of emotional intelligence and achievement motivation on test anxiety.

In this study, the Emotional Intelligence Scale (EIS), Test Anxiety Scale (TAS) and Achievement Motivation Scale (AMS) were used to survey college students in 3 Chongqing universities through questionnaires, and descriptive statistics, variance analysis, correlation analysis, regression Analysis and other methods were used to explore the relationship and influence of college students' emotional intelligence and achievement motivation on test anxiety, and to analyze the influence mechanism of college students' emotional intelligence and achievement motivation on test anxiety.