Construcción y validación de la Escala de Afrontamiento de la Ansiedad durante los Exámenes

Abstract

evidencias de validez favorables mediante análisis de jueces, análisis de ecuaciones estructurales, diferencias según género y correlaciones parciales con ansiedad ante los exámenes. Se concluyó que la esca- la propuesta es apropiada para medir el afrontamiento de la ansiedad durante exámenes. Coping strategies are a useful tool to regulate the anxiety experienced in evaluative situations. Based on that, the objective of this study was to develop a scale to measure the use of strategies in order to cope anxiety during tests, delimiting those which allow to continue solving the test. The developed ins- trument was applied to 184 people (101 women, 82 men and 1 unidentified person with these categories (Mage = 17.27, SD = 0.70) and it considered the experiences in the admission test to a University. The Ex- ploratory Structural Equation Modeling showed a three-factor structure, which represented the strategies: acceptance, putting into perspective and active coping. Each factor defined a subscale, which presented evidence of reliability: acceptable internal consistencies and significant test-retest correlations. Favorable evidence of validity was provided through the analysis of experts, structural equation analysis, gender di- fferences, and partial correlations with test anxiety. It was concluded that the proposed scale is suitable to measure the coping with during tests.