Data set for Rasch and graphical loglinear Rasch analyses of the Statistical Anxiety and Attitudes Towards Statistics Questionnaire (Holdning og Forhold til Statistik – revised; HFS-R)

Dataset for Rasch analyses of the Statistical Anxiety and Attitudes Towards Statistics Questionnaire (Holdning og Forhold til Statistik – revised; HFS-R)

Data from the study reported in 

Nielsen, T., Fellinghauer, C., Strobl, C., Kronthaler, D., & Kreiner, S. (2025). Statistical Anxiety and Attitudes Towards Statistics in psychology students: A measurement comparison study of the German and Danish language versions of the HFS-R. Educational Methods & Psychometrics, 3, Article No. 19. https://dx.doi.org/10.61186/emp.2025.6

Data are from Danish and Swiss Psychology students: Total sample N = 813 (Swiss students n = 368, Danish students n = 445)

The data set contains the background variables described below.

Sample: 1 = Danish, 2 = Swiss

Course (Statistics course at university level): 1 = 1st statistics course, 2 = Not 1st statistics course

Math (Perceived adequacy of math to learn statistics): 1 = more than adequate/adequate, 2 = not quite adequate/inadequate

Stat (Expectancy to need statistics in future employment): 1 = yes, 2 = maybe, 3 = no

Gender: 1 = female, 2 = male

Agegroup (median split): 1 = 21 years and younger, 2 = 22 years and older

The data set contains items from the four HFS-R subscales, with item numbering from the original Danish questionnaire* for comparability.

The Test and Class Anxiety subscale: TCA1, TCA2, TCA3, TCA4, TCA5, TCA7, TCA8

The Interpretation Anxiety subscale: IA1, IA2, IA3, IA4, IA5, IA6, IA7, IA8

The Fear of Asking for Help subscale: FAH1, FAH2, FAH3, FAH4, FAH5

The Worth of Statistics subscale: WS2, WS3r, WS5, WS6, WS7, WS8

The labels for the coding of the response scales for TCA, IA and FAH items are: 1 = no anxiety, 2 = a little anxiety, 3 = some anxiety, and 4 = a lot of anxiety. Note that English is only provided for understanding, while the Danish and German labels used are provided in the article.

The labels for the coding of the response scales for WS items are: 1 = definitely disagree, 2 = disagree more than agree, 3 = agree more than disagree, and 4 = definitely agree. Note that English is only provided for understanding, while the Danish and German labels used are provided in the article.

Item statements are included in the article (https://dx.doi.org/10.61186/emp.2025.6) in both Danish and German, and the Danish and the German questionnaires are available as pdfs from https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14288640 and https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14315982 

* Nielsen, T. & Kreiner, S. (2018). Measuring Statistical Anxiety and Attitudes Towards Statistics: Development of a Comprehensive Danish Instrument (HFS-R). Cogent Education, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/2331186X.2018.1521574

*Nielsen, T & Kreiner, S. (2021): Statistical Anxiety and Attitudes Towards Statistics: criterion-related construct validity of the HFS-R questionnaire revisited using Rasch models. Cogent Education, 8: 1947941 https://doi.org/10.1080/2331186X.2021.1947941