Music Performance Anxiety Scale for High School Students: Validity and Reliability Study

Year 2015, Volume: 2 Issue: 1, 9 - 17, 01.01.2015

Uğur Doğan Mehmet Palancı

Abstract

This study aims to develop a Music Performance Anxiety Scale MPAS for high school students, and to conduct a validity and reliability study. In this respect, a scale will be developed to be used for high school students adolescents , and differences between the genders will be examined. The study was conducted on 546 high school students. Of these students, 185 33.9% were male, 361 66.1% were female, and the average age was 16.81 with the ages ranging from 15 to 20. Correlational values of the scale items among themselves and with item totals were examined as a preliminary analysis. As a result of the EFA’s principal components technique, promax rotation technique and the analyses, a construct with three factors explaining a total of 42.74% of the total variance was attained. The structure attained was validated by CFA, and fit indices were found to be within the acceptance interval. In the reliability study, Cronbach’s alpha internal consistency coefficient was calculated as .86 for the entire scale, 27% for the lower-upper group comparison and test-retest analyses were conducted. The t-test was performed to attain the difference between genders. As a result of the study, a valid and reliable scale was seen to have been developed and a difference between the genders was apparent.

Keywords

Gender, high school students, music performance anxiety, reliability validity

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