An IERI – International Educational Research Institute Journal
General fear of failure | Discriminating school climate | |||||
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Before item selection (5 items) | After item selection (3 items) | Δ | Before item selection (10 items) | After item selection (3 items) | Δ | |
θ mean | 0.01 | 0.02 | − 0.01 | 0.33 | − 0.07 | 0.40*** |
θ sd | 1.24 | 0.99 | 0.25*** | 1.17 | 1.07 | 0.10*** |
correlation of gender and WLE (SE) | − 0.19 (0.03) | − 0.21 (0.03) | 0.02 | − 0.06 (0.04) | − 0.04 (0.03) | − 0.02 |
θ mean (female) | 0.22 | 0.24 | − 0.02 | 0.10 | − 0.03 | 0.07*** |
θ sd (female) | 1.11 | 0.99 | 0.12 | 1.13 | 1.03 | 0.10 |
θ mean (male) | − 0.19 | − 0.19 | 0.00 | − 0.03 | − 0.11 | 0.08** |
θ sd (male) | 1.08 | 0.95 | 0.13 | 1.21 | 1.11 | 0.10 |