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Article: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Mathematics Anxiety Scale for Children.
- Article from:
- Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development
- Article date:
- April 1, 2001
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Confirmatory factor analyses suggested that the Mathematics Anxiety Scale for Children (Chiu & Henry. 1990) measures an internally consistent, unidimensional construct. Construct validity (i.e., correlations with state anxiety, trait anxiety, and quantitative ability) was demonstrated.
The construct of mathematics anxiety has received considerable attention over the past four decades, both among researchers (e.g., Dreger & Aiken, 1957; Ma, 1999; McLeod, 1994; Richardson & Woofolk, 1980) and educators (e.g., Brush, 1981; Tobias, 1978). Mathematics anxiety has been shown to influence such critical areas as achievement in mathematics and science (see Hembree, 1990; ...