Measuring statistics Anxiety: Cross-country validity of the statistical Anxiety Scale (SAS)

Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 559-569

  Chiesi, Francesca ^a   Primi, Caterina ^a   Carmona, José ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HUELVA   (Spain)

Author keywords

confirmatory factor analysis; cross country invariance; mean and covariance structure analysis; reliability; statistics anxiety; validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 80055110294     PISSN: 07342829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0734282911404985     Document Type: Article

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