Abstract
Study anxiety is among one of the many important factors that has been found to be negatively affecting the
academic achievements of school children. The present study was aimed at exploring the phenomenon of study
anxiety among school children. For this purpose the phenomenology of study anxiety was explored using semistructured interviews. On the basis of interviews, 28 items scale was constructed and then administered on the
sample of 419 school children: 201 boys; and 218 girls from 6 Government Schools of Lahore. Exploratory
factor analysis revealed 3 components of study anxiety i.e. fear of evaluation, behavioral manifestations and
memory interference. The overall Cronbach Alpha was found to be .91 (p< .01), whereas the concurrent validity
was found to be .68 and one week test-retest reliability was found to be .90 which was significantly high. The
factor structure of the scale is discussed in a cultural context proposing a model showing possible links between
different ecological factors and study anxiety.
Arooj Maqsood, Tazvin Ijaz. (2013) Development and Validation of Study Anxiety Scale for School Students, Pakistan Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, Volume 11, Issue 1.
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