State test anxiety (STA) and its temporal course surrounding an important examination are of particular interest. This study investigated ten daily assessments of examination-related STA measured on seven consecutive days before and three days after an obligatory written university examination on N = 172 predominantly female students. The discontinuous second-order latent growth curve model consisted of two STA intercept and slope factors that each corresponded to the phases “before” and “after” the examination. STA increased before the examination, plummeted right after, and further decreased during the following days. Students with high STA levels before the examination experienced high levels after the examination, and students with a steep increase showed a steep decrease. The test anxiety traits worry and emotionality correlated more closely with STA levels before than after the examination, but not with STA change gradients. Implications for further research on the temporal changes of examination-related test anxiety are discussed.

状态考试焦虑 (STA) 及其围绕重要考试的时间过程特别令人感兴趣。本研究调查了在N的强制性大学笔试前后连续 7 天和 3 天测量的与考试相关的 STA 的 10 次每日评估。 = 172 名主要是女学生。不连续二阶潜在生长曲线模型由两个 STA 截距和斜率因子组成，每个因子对应于检查“之前”和“之后”的阶段。检查前 STA 增加，检查后立即下降，并在接下来的几天内进一步下降。考前STA水平高的学生，考后水平高，陡增的学生则呈现陡降。考试焦虑特征担心和情绪与考试前 STA 水平的相关性比考试后更密切，但与 STA 变化梯度无关。讨论了进一步研究与考试相关的考试焦虑的时间变化的意义。