Factorial Structure of the Children's School Questionnaire in American and Slovenian Samples

Abstract

In the present study, the factorial structure of the Children's School Questionnaire, and differences on common factors, were investigated in samples of American and Slovenian children. The majority of the evidence indicates that the test measures the same major attributes in both samples, with one factor, labelled school anxiety, oxershadowing all the others. In addition, on the five com-- mon factors--school anxiety, sex role (2), school aspirations, and feelings of inadequacy in school--nationalitv, social status, and sex differences were found. Sex differences were generally larger among Slovenian Ss, while social status differences were generallv larger among American Ss. Sociocultural differences between the two nationalities xx ere discussed and these differences Tere used to account for the major findings, although the "explanations' were more or less hypothetical.