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KMID : 0981220110110010099
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Congnitive Behavior Therapy in Korea
2011 Volume.11 No. 1 p.99 ~ p.109
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Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Korean version of the Revised Test Anxiety Scale in a Sample of University Students
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Cho Yong-Rae
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Abstract
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The Revised Test Anxiety Scale(RTA) has been known to measure multiple dimensions of test anxiety, namely tension, worry, bodily symptom, and test-irrelevant thinking well. The current study examined the factor structure of a Korean version of the RTA using confirmatory factor analysis(CFA) on the responses collected from a sample of university students(N=405). The CFA results indicated that both a correlated four-factor model and a hierarchical four-factor model of the Korean version of the RTA had a relatively acceptable fit after three pairs of error terms were allowed to correlate with each other in the models. The chi-square difference test result indicated that the former was better than the latter. The revised correlated four-factor model consists of tension, worry, bodily symptom, and test-irrelevant thinking factors. In addition, the instrument and its four subscales have good or adequate internal consistency. In conclusion, the results provide general support for the four dimensions of test anxiety as assessed with the Korean version of the RTA.
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KEYWORD
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test anxiety, factor structure, Revised Test Anxiety Scale, internal consistency, construct validity
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