Psychometric properties of the Cuestionario de Confianza para Hablar en Publico: A study with a sample of secondary education.

This research analyzed both the reliability (alpha coefficient) and the con struct validity of the Cuestionario de Confianza para Hablar en Publico (Ba dos, 1986, 1991), in a representative sample of 799 students of the Univers ity Orientation Course (UOC) and the first grade of High Professional Educa tion (1st HPE). The internal consistency was high. By means of a confirmato ry factorial analysis with the LISREL 8 program (Joreskog y Sorbom, 1993), we found that, comparing several alternative models, an unifactorial model adjusted quite well to data. We conclude that the Cuestionario de Confianza para Hablar en Publico is a reliable and valid instrument to assess speech anxiety with Spanish students of Secondary Education, and we propose a sho rt version of this instrument.