
Re-explore into Psychometric Exploring of Face-audience Communication Apprehension Scale for Chinese College Students
Journal of Psychological Science ›› 2012, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (5) : 1218-1224.
Re-explore into Psychometric Exploring of Face-audience Communication Apprehension Scale for Chinese College Students
Owing to the limitations of the previous study Psychometric Exploring of Face-audience Communication Apprehension Scale for Chinese College Students, a new scale was formed after insightful rethinking and elaborate redesign. Following the rules of psychometrics, firstly a pre-survey scale with 79 items was made and with which 1,200 students (50 ones in each university) from 24 universities chosen randomly from 17 provinces or municipalities of China like Beijing, Shanghai, Sichuan, Guangdong, etc. were surveyed. Then among 1,057 valid samples obtained in pre-survey, 529 ones distributed in the odd numb group were put into the exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and the rest into the confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). It is suggested that the latest (revised in October, 2011) Chinese College Students’ Face-audience Communication Apprehension Scale, with four dimensions (platform apprehension, interview apprehension ,affairs-handling apprehension, group-within and outside-campus communication apprehension) and 32 items involved, has more extensive aspects about Face-audience Communication Apprehension of Chinese College Students as well as high reliability and validity in accordance with the demands of psychometrics. This scale can be formally used as a survey instrument to measure the magnitude of Chinese college students’ Face-audience Communication Apprehension. Key words: face-audience Communication Apprehension, platform apprehension, interview apprehension, affairs-handling apprehension, group-within and outside-campus communication apprehension, College students
face-audience Communication Apprehension / platform apprehension / interview apprehension / affairs-handling apprehension / group-within and outside-campus communication apprehension / College students
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