The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory
Charles D. Spielberger,Fernando Gonzalez-Reigosa,Angel Martinez-Urrutia,Luiz F. S. Natalicio,Diana S. Natalicio +4 more
TLDR
The Spanish version of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) was translated into Spanish with the assistance of psychologists from 10 different Latin Ameriaconic countries as mentioned in this paper.Abstract:
The goal of this study was to describe the construction of scales for measuring- state (A-State) and trait (A-Trait) anxiety that would be suitable for use in interamerican, cross-cultural research. The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (Spielberger, et al., 1970) was translated into Spanish with the assistance of psychologists from 10 different Latin American countries. To evaluate the reliability and equivalence of the Spanish and English forms of the STAI, these scales were given in counterbalanced order to bilingual 5s in Texas and Puerto Rico. In both samples, high item- remainder correlations and alpha coefficients ranging from .82 to .95 established the internal consistency of the Spanish A-State and A-Trait scales. Evidence of the equivalence of these scales was provided by correlations between the Spanish and English forms that ranged from .83 to .94. High test-retest reliability was also found for the Spanish A-Trait scale but not for the A-State scale. As expected, the A-State scale was influenced by transitory situational stress, whereas the A-Trait scale was stable over time. It was concluded that the Spanish STAI provides internally consistent and reliable scales for measuring state and trait anxiety which are essentially equivalent to the English STAI A-State and A-Trait scales.read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Intimate male partner violence impairs immune control over herpes simplex virus type 1 in physically and psychologically abused women.
TL;DR: Findings confirm that the stressful disturbance associated with IPV has important physiological consequences, which could impair health by increasing the likelihood of viral reactivation and reducing the ability to suppress virus proliferation.
Journal ArticleDOI
Perceptions of parenting versus parent-child interactions among incest survivors.
TL;DR: Although incest survivors reported less parenting self-efficacy than did nonabused mothers, their interactional styles with their children were positive overall and comparable to those of nonabusing mothers.
Journal ArticleDOI
Psychological consequences for women sexually abused in childhood
TL;DR: Fear and distrust of men, and difficulty with sexual functioning were the most common long-term problems cited by the sexually abused women.
Journal ArticleDOI
Psychological factors in dyspepsia of unknown cause: a comparison with peptic ulcer disease.
TL;DR: The DUO patients had significantly more symptoms of anxiety and tension and higher scores for trait tension and hostility than the organic group, and the two groups did not differ significantly in terms of depressive symptoms, neuroticism, psychoticism, or suppression of negative affects.
Journal ArticleDOI
Sex, sex-role stereotyping and agoraphobia
TL;DR: Both male and female agoraphobics were lower on masculinity than a normative sample and when response to treatment was compared, men and women showed equivalent improvement with the exception of panic frequency on which women showed a poorer outcome.