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David W. Putwain is affiliated with Liverpool John Moores University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences, with significant contributions to Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Education, and Developmental and Educational Psychology.

The scientist's work centers on topics including Education, Achievement, and Giftedness; Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development; Resilience and Mental Health; Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports; Mental Health Research Topics; Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes; and Grit, Self-Efficacy, and Motivation.

Notable recent papers authored by David W. Putwain include:

  • Cognitive-behavioral intervention for test anxiety in adolescent students: do benefits extend to school-related wellbeing and clinical anxiety (2020, Anxiety Stress & Coping)
  • Achievement emotions and academic achievement: Reciprocal relations and the moderating influence of academic buoyancy (2020, Journal of Educational Psychology)
  • The role of achievement emotions in primary school mathematics: Control-value antecedents and achievement outcomes (2020, British Journal of Educational Psychology)
  • Test anxiety, anxiety disorders, and school-related wellbeing: Manifestations of the same or different constructs? (2021, Journal of School Psychology)
  • The Development and Validation of a New Multidimensional Test Anxiety Scale (MTAS) (2020, European Journal of Psychological Assessment)

Frequent coauthors collaborating with David W. Putwain are:

  • Nathaniel P. von der Embse
  • Peter Wood
  • Reinhard Pekrun
  • Diahann Gallard
  • Martin Daumiller

Publications are regularly featured in the following venues:

  • Journal of Educational Psychology
  • Learning and Individual Differences
  • British Journal of Educational Psychology
  • Psychology of Education Review
  • Journal of School Psychology

Best Publications

  • Personal and Situational Predictors of Test Anxiety of Students in Post-Compulsory Education.

    David W. Putwain;Kevin A. Woods;Wendy. Symes

  • Test anxiety in UK schoolchildren: Prevalence and demographic patterns

    David W. Putwain

  • Academic self‐efficacy in study‐related skills and behaviours: Relations with learning‐related emotions and academic success

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  • Researching academic stress and anxiety in students: some methodological considerations

    David Putwain

  • Reciprocal relations between students' academic enjoyment, boredom, and achievement over time

    David W. Putwain;Sandra Becker;Wendy Symes;Reinhard Pekrun

  • Test anxiety prevalence and gender differences in a sample of English secondary school students

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  • Deconstructing test anxiety

    David William Putwain

  • Control-Value Appraisals, Enjoyment, and Boredom in Mathematics: A Longitudinal Latent Interaction Analysis.

    David W. Putwain;Reinhard Pekrun;Reinhard Pekrun;Laura J. Nicholson;Wendy Symes

  • Assessment and examination stress in Key Stage 4

    David William Putwain

  • Is academic buoyancy anything more than adaptive coping

    David W. Putwain;Liz Connors;Wendy Symes;Erica Douglas-Osborn

  • Do cognitive distortions mediate the test anxiety–examination performance relationship?

    David William Putwain;Liz Connors;Wendy Symes

  • The key to successful achievement as an undergraduate student: confidence and realistic expectations?

    Laura Nicholson;David Putwain;Liz Connors;Pat Hornby-Atkinson

  • Examination stress and test anxiety

    DW Putwain

  • Cognitive-behavioral intervention for test anxiety in adolescent students: do benefits extend to school-related wellbeing and clinical anxiety.

    David W Putwain;Nathaniel P von der Embse

  • Do clusters of test anxiety and academic buoyancy differentially predict academic performance

    David W. Putwain;Anthony L. Daly

  • Predictors of adolescents' academic motivation: Personality, self-efficacy and adolescents' characteristics

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  • Is the relationship between competence beliefs and test anxiety influenced by goal orientation

    David William Putwain;Rachel Anne Daniels

  • Fear Appeals in the Primary Classroom: Effects on Test Anxiety and Test Grade.

    David William Putwain;Natalie Best

  • Achievement goals as mediators of the relationship between competence beliefs and test anxiety

    David W. Putwain;Wendy Symes

  • Achievement emotions and academic achievement : Reciprocal relations and the moderating influence of academic buoyancy

    David W. Putwain;Peter Wood;Reinhard Pekrun

  • Test anxiety and GCSE performance: the effect of gender and socio‐economic background

    David William Putwain

  • Academically buoyant students are less anxious about and perform better in high-stakes examinations

    David W. Putwain;Anthony L. Daly;Suzanne Chamberlain;Shireen Sadreddini

  • “‘Sink or swim’: buoyancy and coping in the cognitive test anxiety – academic performance relationship”

    David W. Putwain;Anthony L. Daly;Suzanne Chamberlain;Shireen Sadreddini

Frequent Co-Authors

Reinhard Pekrun
Reinhard Pekrun Australian Catholic University
Nathaniel P. von der Embse
Nathaniel P. von der Embse University of South Florida
Timo Ahonen
Timo Ahonen University of Jyväskylä
Noona Kiuru
Noona Kiuru University of Jyväskylä
Herbert W. Marsh
Herbert W. Marsh Australian Catholic University
Stefan G. Hofmann
Stefan G. Hofmann Philipp University of Marburg
Dennis M. McInerney
Dennis M. McInerney Education University of Hong Kong
Peter J. Clough
Peter J. Clough University of Huddersfield
Shannon M. Suldo
Shannon M. Suldo University of South Florida

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