Preparation and Testing of Parental Educational Anxiety Scale
Parents'education anxiety is a widespread social phenomenon in China,but due to the lack of standardized meas-urement tools,its in-depth research is seriously hindered.Therefore,based on literature review,semi-open interview and two rounds of expert evaluation,parental educational anxiety scale in four stages of preschool education,compulsory education,high school edu-cation and college education were compiled as the respondents,and their reliability and validity were tested.Project analysis,ex-ploratory factor analysis,confirmatory factor analysis and credit validity test showed that the parental educational anxiety scale con-tains 7 factors:academic performance anxiety,study habit anxiety,academic burden anxiety,school choice anxiety,self-education ability anxiety,quality development anxiety,and education investment anxiety.The reliability and validity of the parental education-al anxiety scale both meet the psychometric criteria and can be used as a tool to assess parental educational anxiety.