3.4. Test-retest temporal reliability of SBAS
In order to test whether SBAS is resistant to random errors due to temporal factors between two applications (Kline, 2011, p. 70), SBAS was administered on 40 students from different classes of the same schools over a one-week period. The test-retest reliability analysis produced correlations of r ¼.885 for the 1st factor and r ¼.883 for the 2nd factor. These high levels of test-retest correlation coefficients can be regarded as proofs for the scale’s ability to make stable measurements in time (Büyüköztürk, 2010, p. 170).