raq {discovr}R Documentation

R Anxiety Questionnaire (RAQ)

Description

A dataset from Field, A. P. (2026). Discovering statistics using R and RStudio (2nd ed.). London: Sage.

Usage

raq

Format

A tibble with 2,571 rows and 24 variables.

Details

Fictitious data relating to a fictional questionnaire about R anxiety. I can't stress enough how fictional this example is. Like, don't email me for the questionnaire the whole thing is figment of my mind (and some data simulation). I thought this would be obvious from the questions, but apparently not. Imagine that I wanted to design a questionnaire to measure a trait that I termed 'R anxiety'. I devised a questionnaire to measure various aspects of students' anxiety towards learning R, the RAQ. I generated (in my imagination) questions based on interviews (that never happened in real life) with anxious and non-anxious students and came up with 23 possible questions to include. Each question was a statement followed by a five-point Likert scale: strongly disagree = 1, disagree, neither agree nor disagree, agree and strongly agree (SD, D, N, A and SA respectively). What's more, I wanted to know whether anxiety about R could be broken down into specific forms of anxiety. In other words, what latent variables contribute to anxiety about R?

With a little help from a few lecturer friends (this never happened in real life) I collected 2571 completed questionnaires. The data are stored in this object with 2,571 rows and 24 columns.

Source

www.discovr.rocks/csv/raq.csv


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