ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to test the hypothesis that importance of outcome is the main condition of the occurrence of emotionality as a component of anxiety. It deals with emotionality as a component of test anxiety. An attempt was made to provide a concept in which importance of outcome is analyzed as the primary determinant of emotionality. During the various activity periods, simultaneous recordings of three cardiovascular responses were taken continuously: heart rate, pulse transit time, and finger pulse amplitude. The physiological correlates of emotionality and its implications for the etiology of coronary heart disease were discussed. Emotionality is generally regarded as the motivational component of test anxiety. This construct refers to feeling states of uneasiness, tension, and nervousness and concomitant changes in the level of physiological functioning that are experienced in examination situations.
