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The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, Trait Version: Does It Really Measure Anxiety?

Journal of Personality Assessment, 2010
To clarify what is actually measured by the trait version of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI; Spielberger, Gorsuch, & Lushene, 1970), we conducted a confirmatory factor analysis of various models and evaluated convergent and discriminant validity. The best fit was obtained with both a bifactor model, comprising 2 specific factors plus a general
Arturo, Bados, Juana, Gómez-Benito, Gemma, Balaguer   +2 more
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Anxiety: States, traits—situations?

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1978
The present study investigated the utility of situational assessments of trait anxiety in predicting state anxiety reactions. Ninety-six male subjects preselected at either high or low on three measures of trait anxiety—S-R Inventory of General Trait Anxiousness (S-R GTA) Physical Danger; S-R GTA Evaluation; State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI A-Trait)
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TRAIT ANXIETY AND FEARFULNESS

Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal, 1973
To evaluate the relationship between trait anxiety (TA) and fearfulness, 36 female nursing students were given the Wolpe-Lang Fear Survey Schedule (FSSIII) and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAT). High TA subjects selected from this sample were found to be more fearful than low TA subjects, and a correlation of 0.52 was obtained between ...
Dean G. Kilpatrick, Philip G. Mcleod
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Anxiety sensitivity, trait anxiety, and the anxiety disorders

Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 1991
Abstract The recent debates and commentaries about the construct validity of the Anxiety Sensitivity Index (ASI) suggest several issues that remain to be resolved. First, the factor structure of the ASI remains to be clarified. Second, the distinction between this instrument and measures of trait anxiety has yet to be elucidated.
Steven Taylor, William J. Koch, David J. Crockett   +2 more
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Trait anxiety, trait depression, worry, and memory

Behaviour Research and Therapy, 2004
A study is reported which investigated the proposal that high trait anxiety is associated with a memory bias for worry themes. Forty-five participants were categorised as being high or low trait anxious on the basis of scores on the (Spielberger et al., 1983) (Manual for the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (Form Y) (1983)).
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Paranormal Belief and Trait Anxiety

Psychological Reports, 1982
73 college students completed the Paranormal Belief Scale and the Trait Anxiety Scale. Contrary to hypotheses, neither full Paranormal Scale Scores nor any of seven paranormal subscale scores showed significant correlations with Trait Anxiety Scale scores.
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Effects of Color and Trait Anxiety on State Anxiety

Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1978
A 2 (trait anxiety) × 4 (color) factorial design was used to determine the effects of red, green, yellow, and blue on state anxiety as a function of high and low trait anxiety. The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory was used to assess both trait (A-Trait) and state (A-State) anxiety for the 10 students assigned to each of the eight treatment combinations ...
R A, Reeves, E M, Edmonds, D L, Transou
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Relationships between Spielberger trait anxiety and Lykken social and physical trait anxiety

Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1976
To determine the relationship between Spielberger's measure of trait anxiety and social-interpersonal vs. physical danger trait anxiety, Ss were administered and trait scale of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) and Lykken's Activity Preference Questionnaire (APQ).
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Death Anxiety, State and Trait Anxiety in Kuwaitian Samples

Psychological Reports, 1988
200 male and 277 female undergraduates at the University of Kuwait completed the Templer's Death Anxiety Scale and Spielberger, et al.'s State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for which retest reliabilities were adequate. Women had higher mean scores than men on death and trait anxiety but they were similar in state anxiety.
A M, Abdel-Khalek, M M, Omar
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Trait anxiety and reasoning under uncertainty

Personality and Individual Differences, 2007
We explored the relationship between trait anxiety and reasoning under conditions of uncertainty. In our opinion, high trait anxious individuals (HTA) could have an implicit goal of uncertainty reduction. According to this, we predicted that in reasoning tasks HTA individuals would try to shorten the length of uncertain states by gathering less ...
Bensi L., GIUSBERTI, FIORELLA
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