A Confirmatory Factor Analysis Approach to Test Anxiety

Structural Equation Modeling

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 455-467

  Halpin, Peter F ^a   da Silva, Cibele ^b   De Boeck, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

confirmatory factor analysis; model identification; partial correlation; test anxiety

Indexed keywords

FACTOR ANALYSIS; TESTING;

CONFIRMATORY FACTOR ANALYSES (CFA); CONFIRMATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS; IDENTIFICATION PROBLEM; MODEL IDENTIFICATION; PARAMETER CONSTRAINTS; PARTIAL CORRELATION; PARTIAL FACTOR;

IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

EID: 84904304322     PISSN: 10705511     EISSN: 15328007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2014.915377     Document Type: Article

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