I Need Your Encouragement! Requesting Supportive Comments on Social Media Reduces Test Anxiety
summary
Eighty-eight CS students post a template Facebook message the night before, then read replies, do expressive writing, or read course material; measures use the cognitive test anxiety and state-trait inventories and two timed programming problems (binary-tree node count and linked-list removal) with $100 individual/$10 group incentives. Social support yields a 21% anxiety drop for high-test-anxious students and raises their scores to match low-anxious peers; expressive writing causes a 61% anxiety increase for low-anxious students. Participants report discomfort soliciting encouragement on Facebook.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction to test anxiety
- 1:53Social media support study
- 3:17Experiment design details
- 5:24Anxiety interventions setup
- 7:12Results on anxiety reduction
- 9:19Effects by anxiety level
- 10:44Performance impact findings
- 11:26Student discomfort with social media
- 12:49Practical implications and alternatives
- 14:14Summary and future work
- 14:57Q&A begins
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