Math Anxiety Questionnaire: Similar Latent Structure in Brazilian and German School Children
Table 5
Results of the automatic classification of items (Mokken analysis).
Scale
Brazilian sample (n = 171)
German sample (n = 450)
Items (scale)§
Loevinger’s H-score
Items (scale)§
Loevinger’s H-score
Scale 1
MAQ_M(C)
(H = 0.64)
MAQ_M(D)
(H = 0.57)
MAQ_D(C)
(H = 0.64)
MAQ_D(D)
(H = 0.57)
MAQ_G(C)
(H = 0.62)
MAQ_H(D)
(H = 0.55)
MAQ_H(C)
(H = 0.60)
MAQ_G(D)
(H = 0.52)
MAQ_E(C)
(H = 0.59)
MAQ_E(D)
(H = 0.51)
MAQ_W(C)
(H = 0.58)
MAQ_W(D)
(H = 0.49)
MAQ_H(D)
(H = 0.54)
MAQ_D(C)
(H = 0.46)
MAQ_W(D)
(H = 0.50)
MAQ_H(C)
(H = 0.44)
MAQ_E(D)
(H = 0.48)
MAQ_E(C)
(H = 0.43)
MAQ_M(D)
(H = 0.46)
MAQ_G(C)
(H = 0.42)
MAQ_D(D)
(H = 0.43)
MAQ_W(C)
(H = 0.40)
MAQ_G(D)
(H = 0.42)
MAQ_M(C)
(H = 0.39)
Scale 2
MAQ_M(A)
(H = 0.61)
MAQ_H(A)
(H = 0.54)
MAQ_G(A)
(H = 0.61)
MAQ_G(A)
(H = 0.54)
MAQ_D(A)
(H = 0.57)
MAQ_D(A)
(H = 0.46)
MAQ_M(B)
(H = 0.53)
MAQ_D(B)
(H = 0.43)
MAQ_D(B)
(H = 0.51)
MAQ_M(A)
(H = 0.41)
MAQ_G(B)
(H = 0.48)
MAQ_M(B)
(H = 0.39)
MAQ_H(B)
(H = 0.45)
MAQ_G(B)
(H = 0.37)
MAQ_H(A)
(H = 0.43)
MAQ_E(B)
(H = 0.40)
MAQ_E(A)
(H = 0.39)
Scale 3
MAQ_W(B)
(H = 0.42)
MAQ_W(A)
(H = 0.42)
MAQ_W(B)
(H = 0.30)
MAQ_E(B)
(H = 0.37)
MAQ_W(A)
(H = 0.30)
MAQ_H(B)
(H = 0.35)
§Item description is composed of the content of each item, that is: mathematics in general (MAQ_G); easy calculations (MAQ_E); difficult calculations (MAQ_D); written calculations (MAQ_W); mental calculations (MAQ_M); math homework (MAQ_H) and its scale (A), (B), (C), or (D).
