The Development and Validation of New Anxiety Test for Adults

Abstract

There is a need for a contemporary and reliable scale to assess the impact of test anxiety in adults since adult testing has grown in India. The domain of adult test anxiety is considered to consist of eight dimensions: Physical Manifestation, Psychological Manifestation, Family Anxiety, Social Approval and Relations, Concerns About Success and Failure, Concerns About the Future, Guilt and Shame, and Emotional Anxieties. The evolution of the Anxiety Test (Adults) encompasses four stages: planning, building, quantitative evaluation, and validation. A 125-item scale was presented to a developmental sample (N=400) of adults aged 22 to 55 years to acquire item analysis and reliability estimations, resulting in a refined 80-item measure. The diminished scale was applied to a validation sample (N=200) to acquire evidence of construct validity. An eight-factor structure adequately aligned with the data. Future research recommendations utilizing the scale are delineated.