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Development of the Exam Anxiety Scale for Parents: A Validity and Reliability Study
Author(s) -
Kemal Baytemir,
Tahsin İlhan
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
electronic journal of research in educational psychology
Language(s) - Spanish
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.256
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1699-5880
pISSN - 1696-2095
DOI - 10.25115/ejrep.v16i44.1945
Subject(s) - worry , exploratory factor analysis , psychology , confirmatory factor analysis , anxiety , cronbach's alpha , scale (ratio) , reliability (semiconductor) , clinical psychology , trait , validity , psychometrics , statistics , structural equation modeling , psychiatry , mathematics , power (physics) , physics , quantum mechanics , computer science , programming language
espanolIntroduccion. En esta investigacion, el objetivo fue desarrollar una herramienta de medicion para medir la ansiedad de los padres sobre los examenes de sus hijos. Metodo. Para este proposito, los datos se obtuvieron de dos grupos de estudio diferentes. El primer grupo de estudio consistio en 299 padres, de los cuales 169 eran mujeres y 130 eran hombres, mientras que el segundo grupo de estudio consistia en 200 padres, de los cuales 108 eran mujeres y 92 eran hombres. El analisis factorial exploratorio (AFE) se utilizo para determinar la estructura factorial inicial de la escala y se utilizo el analisis factorial confirmatorio (AFC) para confirmar el resultado. Ademas, las escalas de ansiedad de estado y rasgo se usaron para la validez de criterio. Resultados. La estructura bidimensional obtenida a traves de AFE fue nombrada como preocupacion y dimensiones fisiologicas. Se obtuvieron valores de cumplimiento adecuados en el estudio AFC para confirmar esta estructura bidimensional. En el estudio de validez de criterio, hubo correlaciones moderadamente positivas entre las escalas de ansiedad estado-rasgo y la escala de ansiedad parental. Se encontro que los valores alfa de Cronbach calculados para la confiabilidad tanto en el primer como en el segundo grupo de estudio variaron entre .88 y .93 para todas las escalas y subescalas. Discusion o Conclusion: Con base en estos hallazgos, se concluyo que la escala fue util para medir la ansiedad de los padres que percibieron por sus hijos. EnglishIntroduction. The aim of this study is to develop a measurement instrument for measuring the exam anxiety experienced by the parents regarding their children’s exams. Method. The data were collected from two different study groups. While the first group consists of 299 parents, 169 female and 130 male, the second group consists of 200 parents, 108 female and 92 male. Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) was conducted to examine the factor structure of the scale and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) was conducted to confirm the obtained structure. Additionally, criterion validity was investigated by using the state-trait anxiety inventory. Results. The two-dimensional structure obtained through EFA was named as worry and physiological dimensions. In order to confirm this two-dimensional structure, CFA was conducted and the results showed that the sufficient model fit indices were gathered. For the criterion validity, positive medium correlations were found with the state-trait anxiety inventory. As for the reliability, the Cronbach’s Alpha values computed for both the first and second study groups ranged from .88 to .93 for the sub-dimensions and the overall scale. Discussion andr Conclusion. In light of the above mentioned results, it was concluded that the developed two-factor model is useful for measuring the exam anxiety of parents.

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