Çarkçı Undergraduate Drama Students Performance Anxiety Scale Validity and Reliability Study

The aim of the study is to develop a scale to determine the level and causes of anxiety regarding stage performance or in evolutional settings among undergraduate drama students at the conservatories of universities in Turkey. The study sample comprised 207 undergraduate drama students (104 female and 103 male participants). Initially a pilot study was conducted with 100 participants. Following the analysis of the pilot study, the remaining 25 items were applied to the 207 participants. Six items with item correlation scores less than 0.25, those with high-factor loading in more than one dimension, and and a difference of less than 0.1 between the loading correlations were removed. The Kaiser–Meyer–Olkin (KMO) value of the remaining 19 items was calculated as .847. The total variance explained was 58.835%. First factor hadfour items (α=.795), second comprised five items (α=.707), third had four items (α=.702), fourth contained three items (α=.725), and fifth carried three items (α=.882). The scale comprised 19 items in total (α=.864). A confirmatory factor analysis of the scale yielded varied results, from perfect fit to acceptable fit. The test–retest reliability coefficient was calculated as 995. Moreover, the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale was applied. A significant relationship between these results and those obtained from the performance anxiety scale was revealed. Consequently, the Çarkçı Undergraduate Drama Students Performance Anxiety Scale, a five-factor and 5-point Likert-type scale comprising 19 items, was developed.