A psychometric study of the Test Anxiety Scale for Children in a Spanish sample

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 37-44

  Ferrando, Pere J ^a   Varea, M Dolores ^a   Lorenzo, Urbano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Dimensionality assessment; Gender differences; IQ and academic achievement; Test anxiety

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039446006     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(98)00227-X     Document Type: Article

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