Apprehension is another factor that can hinder women from earning the same wages as men.
We also examined the internal consistency of the seven items of communication apprehension (the first factor), showing a 0.89 Cronbach's alpha coefficient.
It is the fear of losing Venezuelan petrodollars, as well as apprehension about the "biological factor" (as Cubans call the death of the elderly Castros), that drives the island's halting process of change.
Immigrant advocates say that as the Trump administration boasts of lower apprehension numbers, a contributing factor could be the vulnerable individuals and families who have legitimate asylum claims but are being turned away before they get the chance to express them.
As described in Table 1, results showed two dominant factors: (1) "Communication apprehension and understanding," with 13 items exceeding 0.5 factor loadings, and (2) "Communication apprehension and confidence," with 10 items.
In 2011, US immigration authorities gave its officials discretion to weigh various factors in apprehension, detention and deportation, particularly in the case of minors.
Our findings of the two-factor model of the FLCAS (i.e., the one factor of communication apprehension and the other factor of fear of failing) are thought to be applicable in an EFL classroom situation where teachers attempt to help their students manage these negative emotions.
Also, the second factor included communication apprehension (e.g., No. 1) as well as test anxiety sustained by one item (No. 8).
It seemed that the first factor included communication apprehension as a primary element (e.g., No. 13) and fear of negative evaluation as a secondary element (e.g., No. 31).
Moreover, the second factor named "Communication apprehension" was composed of seven items (1, 9, 14, 18, 24, 27, and 32 in their study) whose factor loadings ranged from 0.094 to 0.611; however, the 0.611 of No. 14 as the highest score was not included in the column of the second factor but in that of the third factor of test anxiety.
