Barron, Janian (2010) Concurrent Validity of the CSAI-2R and the EMCA-Q and Anxiety Responses Among Vision Impaired People. Honours thesis, University of Southern Queensland. (Unpublished)
Abstract
The present research involved a factorial and concurrent validity study of the Competitive State Anxiety Inventory -2 (CSAI-2) which has been a commonly-used measure of anxiety since its development by Martens, Vealey and Burton in 1990. A revised 17-item version of the CSAI-2, known as the CSAI-2R, was created by Cox, Martens and Russell in 2003, which has shown superior psychometric characteristics and is now favoured over the original by researchers. Another measure, the Emotion and Mood Components of Anxiety – Questionnaire (EMCA-Q), developed by Beedie, Lane and Terry in 2005, was used as the concurrent measure. Using a retrospective recall approach, data from 152 adult vision-impaired participants completed an on-line questionnaire, titled the Anxiety Responses of Vision Impaired People (ARVIP). The ARVIP included a range of demographic information plus the CSAI-2/CSAI-2R and EMCA-Q. The usual context of the measures, competitive sport, was re-contextualised to a personally-important event in which the participants had recently “performed.” Principal components analysis with promax rotation was used to test the factorial validity of all dependent measures. The CSAI-2R provided a better fit to the data than the original CSAI-2, explaining 63% of the variance compared to 59%, but complex solutions were found for both measures including several cross-loading items. The factorial validity of the EMCA-Q was supported. The concurrent validity of the CSAI-2R and EMCA-Q was supported via the intercorrelations between subscale scores, which were exactly in line with theoretical predictions. Group comparisons using single-factor MANOVAs showed no significant differences in anxiety responses among the vision impaired population by gender, age and level of vision impairment. Those with a previously diagnosed anxiety disorder reported higher anxiety scores than those without such a diagnosis. ANXIETY RESPONSES FOR VIP iii Finally, participants who resided in Australia reported higher level of anxiety scores than those residing outside Australia. The EMCA-Q appears to be a valid measure to use for the vision impaired people in terms of its factor structure, internal consistency and variance explained, whereas there is still further validation work required to the CSAI-2R before it can be considered validated for the vision impaired people as the factor structure is still complex, even though the internal consistency and variance explained is adequate.
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| Faculty/School / Institute/Centre: | Historic - Faculty of Sciences - Department of Psychology (Up to 30 Jun 2013) |
| Supervisors: | Peter Terry |
| Qualification: | Bachelor of Science (Honours) |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Aug 2025 01:00 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Aug 2025 01:00 |
| Fields of Research (2008): | 17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences > 1799 Other Psychology and Cognitive Sciences > 179999 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences not elsewhere classified |
| Fields of Research (2020): | 52 PSYCHOLOGY > 5299 Other psychology > 529999 Other psychology not elsewhere classified |
| URI: | https://sear.unisq.edu.au/id/eprint/52144 |
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