Psychometric Properties of A Statistical Anxiety Scale A Study on the Sample of Postgraduate Students in the Faculty of Education, Tishreen University


Abstract in English

This study aimed to extract the psychometric characteristics of the Statistical Anxiety Scale when applied to a sample of graduate students the Faculty of Education, Tishreen University, to ensure the ability to using the statistical anxiety scale to diagnose postgraduate students' statistical anxiety reliability. Statistical anxiety scale (which was translated into Arabic by Abou Hashem, 2002) has been applied on a sample of research postgraduate students in the courses phase and in the dissertation phase in the Faculty of Education at the Tishreen University. The study results indicate a high significant internal consistency and statistically significant of the scale items, the scale also enjoyed a high degree of reliability. The items that to cause concern were extracted from the sample, and were arranged according to the level of concern caused by calculating the specific weight of each item. A set of hypotheses was verified, it confirmed the scale validity and reliability

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