Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Children's Test Anxiety Scale

Chemistry as a subject is seen by many students as an abstract and difficult lesson that bears no relationship to life. This study aimed to develop an ‘Anxiety Scale for Chemistry’, which is essential to setting an alternative for existing tools to determine anxiety for chemistry of students. This study has been carried out to develop a tool to measure the level of anxiety of students studying in the high schools in Turkey. The scale was developed as a result of the following processes: literature scan and creation of the item pool, taking expert opinions, item-total correlation, item distinctiveness features, exploratory factor analysis, Cronbach’s alpha internal consistency reliability, examination of correlation between sub-dimensions and confirmatory factor analysis. According to the results obtained, the scale is acceptably reliable for the research in social sciences. This study recommends that the Anxiety Scale for Chemistry should be administered to students of other fields also. Keywords: Anxiety, scale, chemistry, reliability, validity, factor analysis.

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The test anxiety inventory: A confirmatory factor analysis

Anxiety Research ◽

10.1080/08917779008248753 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 3 (3) ◽

pp. 205-212 ◽

Cited By ~ 24

Author(s):

William B. Ware ◽

John P. Galassi ◽

Kathleen Michie Harris Dew

Keyword(s):

Factor Analysis ◽

Confirmatory Factor Analysis ◽

Test Anxiety ◽

Confirmatory Factor

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The Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children (MASC): Confirmatory factor analysis in a pediatric ADHD sample

Journal of Attention Disorders ◽

10.1177/108705479900300202 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 85-89 ◽

Cited By ~ 33

Author(s):

J. S. March ◽

C. Conners ◽

G. Arnold ◽

J. Epstein ◽

J. Parker ◽

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Keyword(s):

Factor Analysis ◽

Confirmatory Factor Analysis ◽

Anxiety Scale ◽

Confirmatory Factor

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Translation and psychometrical properties of Coronavirus Anxiety Scale (CAS) in Peruvian young people and adults

Interacciones Revista de Avances en Psicología ◽

10.24016/2020.v6n2.159 ◽

2020 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Rulman Andrei Franco-Jimenez

Keyword(s):

Factor Analysis ◽

Young People ◽

Confirmatory Factor Analysis ◽

Invariant Measure ◽

Psychometric Properties ◽

Factorial Invariance ◽

Anxiety Scale ◽

Structural Evaluation ◽

Confirmatory Factor ◽

Fit Indexes

Background: The overall aim of the study was to translate into Spanish and evaluate the psychometric properties of the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale (CAS). Method: The sample was composed of 622 Peruvian young people and adults who answered CAS. The structural evaluation was conducted with confirmatory factor analysis. Factorial invariance was used to verify the equivalence by sex and age, Results: The unifactorial model revealed good fit indexes χ²(5) = 12.40,CFI = .998, TLI = .996, RMSEA = .049, SRMR = .033. Also, the internal consistency using McDonald´s Omega coefficient was high (ω > .80). The factorial invariance indicated that the unifactorial structure is stable according to age. Conclusion: The Peruvian version of the CAS has evidence to be considered an accurate, valid, and invariant measure and the results support the unifactorial model.

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