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School anxiety can have detrimental effects on various aspects of students’ lives, including their academic performance, emotional well-being and social development. Despite its significant impact, there is a lack of brief, validated tools that are easy to administer for assessing school anxiety in students. To address this gap, the present study developed and validated the School Anxiety Scale (SAS), specifically designed for use with primary and secondary school students. The study involved 1,236 students ( M = 11 years, SD ≈ 6 months) from France and Switzerland. Both exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses supported a robust single-factor structure. The SAS demonstrated strong psychometric properties, including high internal consistency, test–retest reliability, and good convergent validity. These results highlight the SAS as a reliable and practical instrument for assessing school anxiety.
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