School Anxiety Inventory: Reliability and Validity Evidence in a Sample of Slovenian Adolescents

Autor/inn/en	Levpušcek, Melita Puklek; Inglés, Candido J.; Marzo, Juan C.; García-Fernández, Jose M.
Titel	School Anxiety Inventory: Reliability and Validity Evidence in a Sample of Slovenian Adolescents
Quelle	In: Psychology in the Schools, 52 (2015) 9, S.860-873 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0033-3085
DOI	10.1002/pits.21862
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Affective Measures; Anxiety; Reliability; Validity; Adolescents; Factor Analysis; Factor Structure; Scores; Correlation; Academic Failure; Punishment; Aggression; Peer Evaluation; Student Evaluation; Slovenia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Angst; Reliabilität; Gültigkeit; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Faktorenanalyse; Faktorenstruktur; Korrelation; Bestrafung; Schulnote; Studentische Bewertung; Slowenien
Abstract	The purpose of this study was to examine the reliability and validity of the School Anxiety Inventory (SAI) using a sample of 646 Slovenian adolescents (48% boys), ranging in age from 12 to 19 years. Single confirmatory factor analyses replicated the correlated four-factor structure of scores on the SAI for anxiety-provoking school situations (Anxiety about School Failure and Punishment, Anxiety about Aggression, Anxiety about Social Evaluation, and Anxiety about Academic Evaluation), and the three-factor structure of the anxiety response systems (Physiological Anxiety, Cognitive Anxiety, and Behavioral Anxiety). Equality of factor structures was compared using multigroup confirmatory factor analyses. Measurement invariance for the four- and three-factor models was obtained across gender and school-level samples. The scores of the instrument showed high internal reliability and adequate test-retest reliability. The concurrent validity of the SAI scores was also examined through its relationship with the Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents (SASA) scores and the Questionnaire about Interpersonal Difficulties for Adolescents (QIDA) scores. Correlations of the SAI scores with scores on the SASA and the QIDA were of low to moderate effect sizes. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01