Education Science Students’ Statistics Anxiety

Developing and Analyzing a Scale for Measuring their Worry, Avoidance, and Emotionality Cognitions

verfasst von

Günter Faber, Heike Drexler, Alexander Stappert, Joana Eichhorn

Abstract

Current instruments for assessing university students’ statistics anxiety prevailingly emphasize the affective construct component. In order to unfold the construct in a more exhaustive and differentiated manner, a scale for measuring university students’ worry, avoidance, and emotionality cognitions was developed. In two samples of education science majors the present pilot study aimed at analyzing the scale’s psychometric properties and at gaining preliminary validation results. Principal component analyses led to the formation of a unidimensional scale which appeared to be sufficiently reliable. Its relations to domain-specific self-belief and background variables turned out as theoretically expected – thus, for the time being the scale should claim criterion validity.

Organisationseinheit(en)

Institut für Psychologie

Externe Organisation(en)

Universität Vechta

Typ

Artikel

Journal

International Journal of Educational Psychology

Band

7

Seiten

248-285

Anzahl der Seiten

38

Publikationsdatum

24.02.2018

Publikationsstatus

Veröffentlicht

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Ausbildung bzw. Denomination, Pädagogische und Entwicklungspsychologie

Elektronische Version(en)

https://doi.org/10.17583/ijep.2018.2872 (Zugang: Offen)
https://doi.org/10.15488/4889 (Zugang: Offen)