ACADEMIC ANXIETY SCALE: TOOL DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION

The purpose of the paper was to present the process of Academic Anxiety Scale development and validation process. The scale was developed initially with qualitative enquiry followed by exploratory factor analysis, the sub constructs were identified and nomenclature was given. Confirmatory Factor Analysis had been executed for “measurement model” using SEM (AMOS Version.20.0). The value of goodness of fit indices for academic anxiety indicates model is very good fit. Cronbach‟s alpha reliability coefficients are greater than 0.7 show adequate reliability of the constructs. The Composite Reliability values are greater than 0.63. Items with Average Variance extracted (AVE) of more than 0.50 possesses convergent validity. Variance Explained (VE) value in respect of all constructs is greater than squared correlation of the construct values. Hence, it can be concluded that the research instrument possesses the desired discriminate validity. This clearly shows that the reliability of the tool is well established.