The Relationship between Academic Self -Regulation and Responsibility with Test Anxiety in Female Students

Test anxiety is a tension mode that can lead to reduction of academic performance, poor learning, and level of grades. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between academic self-regulation and responsibility with test anxiety in female students. Design of research was descriptive from correlational method. The statistical population included all of female high school students of Rasht city in 2013-2014 academic years that 128 students were selected by multistage cluster sampling method and they completed academic self-regulation (Kanel & Ryan, 1987), responsibility (Kordloo, 2010), and test anxiety (Abolghasemi, 2000) scales. Results of the Pearson of correlation coefficient showed there are significant negative correlation between test anxiety with total score of self-regulation and subscales internal self-regulation and intrinsic motivation and positive significant relationship with extrinsic motivation (p