A Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Structure of Statistics Anxiety Measure: An examination of four alternative models

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study is to explore the confirmatory factor analysis results of the Persian adaptation of Statistics Anxiety Measure (SAM), proposed by Earp. METHOD: The validity and reliability assessments of the scale were performed on 298 college students chosen randomly from Tabriz Un...

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Autores principales: Vahedi, Shahram, Farrokhi, Farahman, Bevrani, Hossein
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3395949/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22952530
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author Vahedi, Shahram
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description OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study is to explore the confirmatory factor analysis results of the Persian adaptation of Statistics Anxiety Measure (SAM), proposed by Earp. METHOD: The validity and reliability assessments of the scale were performed on 298 college students chosen randomly from Tabriz University in Iran. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was carried out to determine the factor structures of the Persian adaptation of SAM. RESULTS: As expected, the second order model provided a better fit to the data than the three alternative models. CONCLUSIONS: Hence, SAM provides an equally valid measure for use among college students. The study both expands and adds support to the existing body of math anxiety literature.
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spelling pubmed-33959492012-09-05 A Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Structure of Statistics Anxiety Measure: An examination of four alternative models Vahedi, Shahram Farrokhi, Farahman Bevrani, Hossein Iran J Psychiatry Original Article OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study is to explore the confirmatory factor analysis results of the Persian adaptation of Statistics Anxiety Measure (SAM), proposed by Earp. METHOD: The validity and reliability assessments of the scale were performed on 298 college students chosen randomly from Tabriz University in Iran. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was carried out to determine the factor structures of the Persian adaptation of SAM. RESULTS: As expected, the second order model provided a better fit to the data than the three alternative models. CONCLUSIONS: Hence, SAM provides an equally valid measure for use among college students. The study both expands and adds support to the existing body of math anxiety literature. Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3395949/ /pubmed/22952530 Text en © 2011 Psychiatry and Psychology Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 3.0 License (CC BY-NC 3.0), which allows users to read, copy, distribute and make derivative works for non-commercial purposes from the material, as long as the author of the original work is cited properly.
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