Confirmatory study on the dimensionality of a scale for the detection of school performance concern indicators
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https://doi.org/10.7346/sird-022024-p219Keywords:
anxiety, school phobia, school worries, adolescentsAbstract
Concerning scholastic distress only a few Italian studies have dedicated detailed investigations to the perception of distress in preadolescent students with regard to school performance situations. The international research offers relevant surveys supported by useful measures of states of worry, anxiety and phobia in regard to scholastic commitment and educational expectations. In the lack of a recent Italian tool to draw a generic framework on the emotional, physiological and cognitive state of students, it was considered useful to refer to a previous Italian contribution whose psychometric reliability of the proposed factors was tested. The factorial study, by data collection with informed consensus on a non-clinical sample of Southern Italy (178 secondary school students), provides 4 components investigated by 24 items on a Likert scale. The metric properties measured on the questionnaire are adequate and consistent with the original questionnaire. The final version appears promising as a measure of worry about school performance and could be used to prevent distress risk factors or to investigate present vulnerabilities.
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