Assessment of anxiety and achievement in kindergarten and first-and second-grade children |
| |
Authors: | James P. Papay Charles D. Spielberger |
| |
Affiliation: | (1) University of South Florida, USA;(2) Advanced Technology, Inc., 12001 Sunrise Valley Drive, 22091 Reston, Virginia |
| |
Abstract: | The psychometric properties of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children (STAIC) and relationships between STAIC T-Anxiety scores and standardized measures of achievement were determined for 948 kindergarten and first-and second-grade children. The T-anxiety scores of kindergarten children were lower than those of first-and second-graders. Internal consistency of the STAIC scales was higher in individual testing sessions than in small group administrations. Small but significant negative correlations were found between STAIC T-Anxiety scores and measures of school achievement. It was concluded that the STAIC is a potentially useful measure of state and trait anxiety in kindergarten through sixth-grade children, but it must be administered individually at the kindergarten and first-grade levels.The research was performed while the senior author was a senior research scientist at the Dallas Independent School District. |
| |
Keywords: | |
本文献已被 SpringerLink 等数据库收录! |
|