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How attitudes towards statistics courses and the field of statistics predicts statistics anxiety among undergraduate social science majors: A validation of the Statistical Anxiety Scale.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	How attitudes towards statistics courses and the field of statistics predicts statistics anxiety among undergraduate social science majors: A validation of the Statistical Anxiety Scale./
Author:	O'Bryant, Monique J.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
Description:	70 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-07(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-07A(E).
Subject:	Educational psychology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10753715
ISBN:	9780355558715

How attitudes towards statistics courses and the field of statistics predicts statistics anxiety among undergraduate social science majors: A validation of the Statistical Anxiety Scale.
O'Bryant, Monique J.

How attitudes towards statistics courses and the field of statistics predicts statistics anxiety among undergraduate social science majors: A validation of the Statistical Anxiety Scale. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 70 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-07(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of North Texas, 2017.

The aim of this study was to validate an instrument that can be used by instructors or social scientist who are interested in evaluating statistics anxiety. The psychometric properties of the English version of the Statistical Anxiety Scale (SAS) was examined through a confirmatory factor analysis of scores from a sample of 323 undergraduate social science majors enrolled in colleges and universities in the United States. In previous studies, the psychometric properties of the Spanish and Italian versions of the SAS were validated; however, the English version of the SAS had never been assessed. Inconsistent with previous studies, scores on the English version of the SAS did not produce psychometrically acceptable values of validity. However, the results of this study suggested the potential value of a revised two-factor model SAS to measure statistics anxiety. Additionally, the Attitudes Towards Statistics (ATS) scale was used to examine the convergent and discriminant validities of the two-factor SAS. As expected, the correlation between the two factors of the SAS and the two factors of the ATS uncovered a moderately negative correlation between examination anxiety and attitudes towards the course. Additionally, the results of a structural regression model of attitudes towards statistics as a predictor of statistics anxiety suggested that attitudes towards the course and attitudes towards the field of statistics moderately predicts examination anxiety with attitudes towards the course having the greatest influence. It is recommended that future studies examine the relationship between attitudes towards statistics, statistics anxiety, and other variables such as academic achievement and instructional style.

ISBN: 9780355558715Subjects--Topical Terms:

517650
Educational psychology.

How attitudes towards statistics courses and the field of statistics predicts statistics anxiety among undergraduate social science majors: A validation of the Statistical Anxiety Scale.
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