Reliability and Validity of Communication Apprehension Scale in College Students / 中国心理卫生杂志
Chinese Mental Health Journal
;
(12)1991.
Article
in Chinese
| WPRIM
| ID: wpr-591297
ABSTRACT
Objective:
To do a psychometric test of PRCA-24(Personal Report of Communication Apprehension,24 items)to provide an instrument to detect the interpersonal communication anxiety of Chinese college students.Methods:
The English version was translated into Chinese and back-translated.After checked the meaning of the original version and the back translation,data were collected from a sample of 208 college students from Dezhou College,including test-retest with two weeks interval.58 of the 208 received Social Avoidance and Distress Scale for criterion validity.Explorative factor analysis was used for item analysis and correlation analysis for criterion validity.Results:
The revised scale was divided into three factors.Factor analysis indicated that the three factors could explain 53.8% of the variance with loading between 0.444~0.820.The coefficient of Cronbach's ? was 0.88.The test-retest correlations of the three factors were 0.66,0.73,0.79 respectively and that of the total scale was 0.85(P
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WPRIM (Western Pacific)
Language:
Chinese
Journal:
Chinese Mental Health Journal
Year:
1991
Type:
Article
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