Codebook

Overview

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between trait anxiety and academic anxiety.

Once data collection is complete, preview runs should be removed, and check ethical requirements (consent, age).

Variable	Type	Description	Values
id	Categorical	Unique ID code	N/A
distribution	Categorical	Data collected either as a preview (before real collection) or anonymous genuine responses.	"preview" or "anonymous"
consent	Categorical	Whether the participant read the information sheet and consented to participate.	"Yes" or "No"
gender	Categorical	Gender identity.	1 = "female" 2 = "male" 3 = "non-binary" 4 = "other/pnts" Note: "pnts" is an abbreviation for "Prefer not to say".
age	Numeric	Age in years.	Should be 18 - 99
test_anxiety_score	Numeric	Score on an academic test anxiety scale	1 (low anxiety) to 5 (high anxiety)
part_anxiety_score	Numeric	Score on an academic participation anxiety scale	1 (low anxiety) to 5 (high anxiety)
sticsa_trait_score	Numeric	Score on the Trait Anxiety subscale of the State-Trait Inventory for Cognitive and Somatic Anxiety (STICSA).	1 (not at all) to 4 (very much so)
ac_anxiety_score	Numeric	Averaged anxiety score across academic test and participation anxiety	1 (low anxiety) to 5 (high anxiety)
sticsa_trait_cat	Categorical	Whether the participant has clinically significant levels of trait anxiety, according to Van Dam et al. (2013)'s cutoff of 2.047619 for the STICSA scale.	"clinical" (above cutoff) or "non-clinical" (below cutoff)