Reliability ,validation and standardization of public speaking anxiety scale
Subject Areas :Maryam marmazi 1 , mehrdad sabet 2
1 - Islamic Azad University Electronic Branch
2 - Assistant professor-Islamic Azad University Electronic Branch
Keywords: Public speaking anxiety scale, Exploratory Factor Analysis, Standardization,
Abstract :
There is a high prevalence of anxiety disorder among the population so it is very important to developing a suitable tools for measuring anxiety disorders perfectly. This study was performed to evaluate the public speaking anxiety questionnaire's validity and reliability and standardization in Iranian population. The studied population were teachers who work in Ahvaz from 1399 to 1400, The questionnaire were fill in voluntarily and online by two groups 304 women and 99 men. To evaluate convergent validity 51 cases fill in two( PSAS) and (SATI) questioners. The results of this study showed there is high validity and correlation between two scales. CVI and CVR scale showed the questionnaire has a good content validity According to the Cronbach’s alpha value, the internal consistency of the scale was high(94%) and acceptable. Analysis of main factor by varimax rotation according to negative and positive parameter was assessed. According to expletory factor analysis the question number 17 deleted. The result of this study showed that public Persian anxiety scale is a favorite tool for anxiety assessment.
