Journal of Consulting Psychology · 1967 · 19 citations · 8 references
Social SciencesEducational PsychologyPsychologyIndividual DifferencesPsychometricsScale DevelopmentAnxiety AssessmentChild PsychopathologyFactor AnalysisItem AnalysisPsychological TestingTrait StructureGrade AnxietyInvariant Factor StructurePediatric Anxiety AssessmentSelf-report Anxiety QuestionnairesSomatic Symptoms Of Anxiety
Dimensionality of the Test Anxiety Scale for Children,(TASC) was investigated for 3867 boys and 3684 girls in the second grade. Principal. component:factor analyses and orthogonal rotations were performed for eacksex.Rotated factor matrices were compared to each,otherand to factor matrices obtained by,Dunn for children, at two older age levels. For second graders, four factors wereinterpreted: Test Anxiety, Remote School Concern, Poor Self-Evaluation, and Somatic.Signs.of Anxiety. Test Anxiety was the largest factor, for both sexes. Factor _ structuresefor.second grade boyeand girls were highly comparable and. showedcmarked similarity to Dunn's,samples, It watkconcluded that the. TASC has.comparable multidimensional structure across sex and Age groupings.
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