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hard to be controlled. To solve this problem, we adopted marked maze (a sign of animal's head)
and non-marked maze in lab experiment. Forty students firstly passed a marked maze on the paper,
then passed another similar non-marked maze on the second day. We found the male finished the
non-marked maze.
2095.8 Sustainable behavior and time perspective: Present, past, and future orientations and
their relationship with water conservation behavior, Victor Corral-Verdugo 1 , Jose Q. Pinheiro 2 ,
1 2
University of Sonora, Mexico; Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brasil
This paper explores the relationship between people’s time perspective and their proenvironmental
tendency. 300 individuals at a Mexican city responded to items of Zimbardo’s Time Perspective
Inventory (ZTPI), and self-reported how frequently they engaged in water conservation practices.
The ZTPI assesses individual differences in terms of attitudes believed to identify persons of past,
present or future orientation. Results of a model showed that Hedonistic Present and Water
Conservation significantly and negatively covaried. Such covariation was also produced between
Water Conservation and Fatalistic Present. Water conservation did not correlate with either
sub-type of past orientation but positively covaried with future orientation.
2096 ORAL
Educational psychology
Chair: Shudong Wang, USA
2096.1 A study of interrelationship of adjustment, motivational pattern, occupational aspiration
and life satisfaction of female students in technical institutions, Priti Singh, Seth j.b.shah college
for women, India
Today we need more forceful strategy to remove the hurdles in way of women in higher education,
sex should not be the basis of any inequality. To overcome these barriers, education at school level
must be made absolutely free for girl child. Gender sensitivity camps be organized in backward
and remote areas. Social recognition should be given to girls excelling in education especially in
profession like engineering, management and medical studies. In this study we have taken a
sample of 350 women students and questionnaire on adjustment, MAT occupational aspiration and
life satisfaction were got filled and data analyzed.
2096.2 Epidemiology of test anxiety among high school students, Mahnaz Mehrabizadeh
Honarmand 1 , Abbas Abolghasemi 2 , Bahman Najarian 1 , Hossein Shokrkon 1 , 1 Shahid Chamran
University, Iran; 2 University of Moaghegh Ardebili, Iran
To investigate the epidemiology of test anxiety among Ahvaz high school students (Iran), 3109
high school students were randomly selected from Ahvaz high schools. Ahvaz Test Anxiety
Inventory (Abolghsemi et al., 1996) and a clinical interview were the instruments employed to
measure test anxiety symptoms among the subjects. Results showed that 539 subjects (17.3%)
suffer from test anxiety. Greater frequency and intensity of test anxiety were found in girls than
boys (22%), and in Arab speaking students than in Farsi speaking students (18.7%). Also, low
socio-economic status students (18.7%) were found to suffer higher levels of test anxiety than
upper.
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