Short form of the Spanish adaptation of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory

Gualberto Buela-Casal, Alejandro Guillén-Riquelme, Gualberto Buela-Casal, Alejandro Guillén-Riquelme

Abstract

Background/Objective: The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) is one of the assessment instruments that are most widely used by psychologists around the world and is the seventh most broadly used by clinical psychologists in Spain. Although several short forms of the STAI have been developed since its creation, none are available for the Spanish general population. The aim of the present study was to develop and validate a short form of the STAI. Method: To achieve this, we administered the full STAI to 1,157 healthy adults, and 30 patients with generalized anxiety disorder. We conducted a discriminant analysis using such groups. Results: We obtained a selection of four items for state anxiety and four items for trait anxiety and compared it to other short forms through a confirmatory factor analysis. The short form obtained with the discriminant analysis showed the best fit for Spanish samples. Conclusions: these eight items can be used to facilitate the state and trait anxiety assessment.

Keywords: Instrumental study; STAI; Short version; State-Trait Anxiety Inventory.

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Figure 1
Test information function for all short versions in state scale. Note. Model 1: data from this article; model 2: proposed by Van Knippenberg et al. (1990); model 3: proposed by Kaipper et al. (2010); model 4: Fioravanti-Bastos et al. (2011). Generalized partial credit models, Rasch approximation was used. X axis was rescaled to 0-1 range.
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Figure 2
Test information function for all short versions in trait subscale. Note. Model 1: data from this article; model 2: proposed by Van Knippenberg et al. (1990); model 3: proposed by Kaipper et al. (2010); model 4: Fioravanti-Bastos et al. (2011). Generalized partial credit models, Rasch approximation was used. X axis was rescaled to 0-1 range.

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