Parents education anxiety questionnaire: Validation in Indonesian parents of school-aged children

Abstract

AbstractThis study aimed to adapt and validate the Parents Education Anxiety Questionnaire (PEAQ) for the Indonesian context. The sample included 222 parents of school-aged children, predominantly mothers (84.7%) and fathers (15.3%). The results indicated that the adapted questionnaire exhibited good reliability, with a Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of .90, ensuring internal consistency. Confirmatory factor analysis supported the fit of both first-order and second-order models, confirming the construct validity. Concurrent validity was demonstrated by moderate correlations between PEAQ and SPANE-Positive and SPANE-Negative. These findings highlight the reliability and validity of the Indonesian version of PEAQ, making it a valuable tool for measuring parents’ education anxiety, a crucial aspect for Asian parents, and its impact on children’s academic performance.

Keywords

• educational anxiety
• parental anxiety
• measuring instrumen
• reliabiliy
• validity