The structure of test anxiety in Israeli-Arab high school students: An application of confirmatory factor analysis with miniscales

Anxiety, Stress and Coping

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 129-151

  Nasser, Fadia ^a   Takahashi, Tomone ^b   Benson, Jeri ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Confirmatory factor analysis; Gender; Item parcel; Test anxiety; Test reaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031489895     PISSN: 10615806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10615809708249298     Document Type: Article

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