Education Science Students’ Statistics Anxiety

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

authored by: 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.
Organisation(s): Institute of Psychology
External Organisation(s): University of Vechta
Type: Article
Journal: International Journal of Educational Psychology
Volume: 7
Pages: 248-285
No. of pages: 38
Publication date: 24.02.2018
Publication status: Published
Peer reviewed: Yes
ASJC Scopus subject areas: Education, Developmental and Educational Psychology
Electronic version(s): https://doi.org/10.17583/ijep.2018.2872 (Access: Open)
https://doi.org/10.15488/4889 (Access: Open)

BibTeX

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title = "Education Science Students{\textquoteright} Statistics Anxiety: Developing and Analyzing a Scale for Measuring their Worry, Avoidance, and Emotionality Cognitions",
abstract = "Current instruments for assessing university students{\textquoteright} 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{\textquoteright} worry, avoidance, and emotionality cognitions was developed. In two samples of education science majors the present pilot study aimed at analyzing the scale{\textquoteright}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.",
keywords = "And emotionality cognitions, Avoidance, Preliminary validation results, Psychometric analysis, Scale development, Statistics anxiety, Worry",
author = "G{\"u}nter Faber and Heike Drexler and Alexander Stappert and Joana Eichhorn",
year = "2018",
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doi = "10.17583/ijep.2018.2872",
language = "English",
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journal = "International Journal of Educational Psychology",
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publisher = "Hipatia Press",
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