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ERIC Number: EJ302083
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1984
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Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Factor Structures of Anxiety Measures: A Multiple Group Comparison.
Newton, Rae R.
Educational and Psychological Measurement, v44 n2 p179-93 Sum 1984
This paper examines the construct generality of five self-report measures of anxiety across male and female samples, and illustrates the use of confirmatory maximum likelihood techniques for examining factorial invariance. (Author/BW)
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Analysis of Covariance, Anxiety, Data Analysis, Factor Analysis, Factor Structure, Higher Education, Maximum Likelihood Statistics, Sex Differences, Test Reliability
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Factor Invariance; S R Inventory of Anxiousness (Endler et al); State Trait Anxiety Inventory (Spielberger); Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale
Note: Support for this research was provided in part by National Institute of Mental Health training grant in measurement #PHS T32 MH 15789-02. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (66th, New York, NY, March 19-23, 1982).