The influence of emotional intelligence, cognitive test anxiety, and coping strategies on undergraduate academic performance

CL Thomas, JC Cassady, ML Heller�- Learning and Individual Differences, 2017 - Elsevier
This study explored factors with the potential to exert facilitative and debilitative influence on
undergraduate students' academic performance. Participants responded to the Schutte
Emotional Intelligence Scale, COPE inventory, and Cognitive Test Anxiety Scale-Revised
and agreed to have their responses paired with institutional performance data. Analyses
tested the iterative and collective influence of the identified variables on four-year GPA after
controlling for previous academic performance (first-year GPA). The examination revealed�…