A Comparability Analysis of Anxiety Measure: Invariance Across Groups of International Students' Classifications

• In Event: 64.086 - MTCC Roundtable Session 27
  In Roundtable Session: 64.086-14 - Education Viewed in an International Context

Abstract

This study investigated the structure of the latent factor of an anxiety scale and the stability of invariance across groups of international students’ classifications. The sample was (619), Saudi students as international students in the USA completed the anxiety symptom scale. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used to test the factor structure of the scale, and a multiple-group confirmatory factor analysis (MGCFA) model was used to test stability of invariance across groups of students’ classifications. The findings of the CFA indicated support for the original one-factor model. Additional analyses of the MGCFA indicated that, there was an invariant across gender. However, there was partially invariant across groups of students’ current degree, and partially invariant across groups of students’ status.

Author

• Deyab Aied Almaleki, Umm Al-Qura University