Psychometric properties of the Greek version of the Test Anxiety Inventory

HTML  Download Download as PDF (Size: 164KB)  PP. 241-247  
DOI: 10.4236/psych.2011.23038    8,496 Downloads   17,669 Views  Citations

Affiliation(s)

.

ABSTRACT

The present study examined the psychometric properties of the Greek version of Spielberger (1980) self-report measure of test anxiety, the Test Anxiety Inventory (TAI). The total sample consisted of 231 undergraduate stu-dents (124 male, 107 female). The results verified the well established two-factor structure for the TAI. The two factors represented the Worry (TAI-W) and Emotionality (TAI-E) subscales, respectively. Furthermore, on the bases of the confirmatory factor analyses, using either the set of 20 items or the set of 16 items, we found con-vincing support for the existing relationship between the two subscales of the Test Anxiety Inventory. The in-ternal consistency of the twenty-item TAI-T scale and for the eight-item Worry and Emotionality subscales ranged from Cronbach’s α = .81 to .94. The G-TAI and its subscales showed differential statistically significant relationships with a self-report measure of cognitive interference.

Share and Cite:

Papantoniou, G. , Moraitou, D. & Filippidou, D. (2011). Psychometric properties of the Greek version of the Test Anxiety Inventory. Psychology, 2, 241-247. doi: 10.4236/psych.2011.23038.

Copyright © 2024 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc.

Creative Commons License

This work and the related PDF file are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.