TITLE:
Psychometric properties of the Greek version of the Test Anxiety Inventory
AUTHORS:
Georgia Papantoniou, Despina Moraitou, Dimitra Filippidou
KEYWORDS:
Psychometrics, Test Anxiety, Greece
JOURNAL NAME:
Psychology,
Vol.2 No.3,
June
29,
2011
ABSTRACT: The present study examined the psychometric properties of the Greek version of Spielberger (1980) self-report measure of test anxiety, the Test Anxiety Inventory (TAI). The total sample consisted of 231 undergraduate stu-dents (124 male, 107 female). The results verified the well established two-factor structure for the TAI. The two factors represented the Worry (TAI-W) and Emotionality (TAI-E) subscales, respectively. Furthermore, on the bases of the confirmatory factor analyses, using either the set of 20 items or the set of 16 items, we found con-vincing support for the existing relationship between the two subscales of the Test Anxiety Inventory. The in-ternal consistency of the twenty-item TAI-T scale and for the eight-item Worry and Emotionality subscales ranged from Cronbach’s α = .81 to .94. The G-TAI and its subscales showed differential statistically significant relationships with a self-report measure of cognitive interference.