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
Psychological therapies for generalised anxiety disorder
TL;DR: Psychological therapies, all using a CBT approach, were more effective than TAU/WL in achieving clinical response at post-treatment and reducing anxiety, worry and depression symptoms for patients with GAD.
Journal ArticleDOI
Diverse pathways to deficient self-regulation: Implications for disinhibitory psychopathology in children
Joseph P. Newman,John F. Wallace +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used Gray's neuropsychological model of approach/avoidance learning to identify three different pathways to the breakdown of self-regulation in childhood. But, they did not consider the potential implications of these pathways for the development of conduct disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and several “comorbid” disorders.
Journal ArticleDOI
Determinants of endogenous analgesia magnitude in a diffuse noxious inhibitory control (DNIC) paradigm: do conditioning stimulus painfulness, gender and personality variables matter?
Michal Granot,Irit Weissman-Fogel,Yonathan Crispel,Dorit Pud,Yelena Granovsky,Elliot Sprecher,David Yarnitsky +6 more
TL;DR: DNIC testing, thus, seems to be relatively independent of the stimulation conditions, making it an easy to apply tool, suitable for wide range applications in pain psychophysics.
Journal ArticleDOI
The course of anxiety, depression and drinking behaviours after completed detoxification in alcoholics with and without comorbid anxiety and depressive disorders.
Martin Driessen,Szilvia Meier,Andreas Hill,Tilmann Wetterling,Wolfgang Lange,Klaus Junghanns +5 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that severe trait anxiety persisting after 3 weeks of abstinence, comorbid depressive and/or anxiety disorders, and combinations of these with moderate or severe current anxiety and depressive states represent the greatest risks of relapse and therefore may indicate a treatment need.
Journal ArticleDOI
A prospective test of an integrative interpersonal theory of depression: a naturalistic study of college roommates.
TL;DR: This study tested an integrated interpersonal theory of depression, which combines J. C. Coyne's (1976b) interpersonal theories of depression with work on the interplay between self-enhancement and self-consistency theory, and found the combination of negative feedback seeking, high reassurance seeking, and depression at T1 predicted T1 to T2 increases in rejection by roommates.