摘要：The aim of this study is to adapt the Physical Education Trait Anxiety Scale developed by Barkoukis, Rodafinos, Koidou and Tsorbatzoudis (2012) in Turkish. Being in English originally, this scale consists of 18 items and 3 dimensions. First of all, the original scale was translated into Turkish for adaptation study. It was aimed to determine whether the Turkish form and English form had the same meaning in the practice, the original and then the translated form of the scale were applied two weeks apart on a group of high school students. Pearson Product-Moment Correlation Coefficient was considered to test the consistency between scores obtained from the both scales and it was found to be .995. Accordingly, high-level, positive and significant relationship was found between Turkish and English scales. The scale with lingual equivalence was applied on a total of 190 high-school students. Internal consistency coefficient of the whole scale was found to be .94 and test-retest reliability of the scale was found to be .96. Internal consistency coefficient was found to be .93 for the first sub-dimension "Cognitive Processes"; .97 for the second sub-dimension "Somatic Anxiety" and .98 for the third sub-dimension "Worry". Factor analysis was conducted to determine the construct validity of the scale. To this end, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was applied to test the three-factor construct of the scale. According to the validity and reliability analyses, it was found that this scale is a reliable and valid scale to be used to determine the trait anxiety levels of high school students towards physical education in Turkey.
