Factorial structure of the statistical anxiety scale and its relationship with students’ personal characteristics in Abadan Islamic Azad University
Subject Areas : Educational Psychology
Ghasem Rekabdar
1
(عضو هیئت علمی دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد آبادان)
Bahareh Soleymani
2
(عضو هیئت علمی دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی-واحد آبادان)
Keywords: Anxiety, statistical education, factor analyses,
Abstract :
The aim of this study is constructing and validating a Persian scale for measuring statistical anxiety among students of Islamic Azad University in Abadan. The minor aim is to determine its relationship with gender, age, the field of study in high school. The statistical sample size included 319 student s (129male &190female) who were enrolled in second term in statistics course, were randomly selected using cluster sampling. The initial questionnaire included 47 items, 17 items of which were deleted due to initial statistical analysis. The reliability of factorial analyses of 30 items were put on five factors, namely: application statistical anxiety, analyze and comment of statistical anxiety, examining statistical anxiety, statistical anxiety instrument, and teachers’ statistical anxiety. Using alpha coefficient and test -retest methods, the reliability of total statistical anxiety scale and subscales were confirmed. Three way ANOVA was used for determining effects of gender, age and field of study in high school on the statistical anxiety. The findings indicated that main effects of gender and field of study in high school were significant on statistics anxiety. Post hoc test indicated that female students had greater anxiety than the male students. Also scheffe test indicated that students studying in humanities during high school had greater statistical anxiety than the other students.
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