Psychometric Properties of the State-Trait Inventory for Cognitive and Somatic Anxiety (STICSA): Comparison to the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI)

• Published in: Psychological assessment Vol. 19; no. 4; pp. 369 - 381
• Main Authors: Gros, Daniel F, Antony, Martin M, Simms, Leonard J, McCabe, Randi E
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Psychological Association 01.12.2007
• Subjects: Adult; Affect; Anxiety; Anxiety Disorders - diagnosis; Anxiety Disorders - psychology; Clinics; Cognition; Comparative Analysis; Correlation; Depression (Psychology); Depressive Disorder - diagnosis; Depressive Disorder - psychology; Discriminant Analysis; Factor Analysis; Factor Analysis, Statistical; Female; Humans; Male; Measures (Individuals); Patients; Personality Inventory - standards; Personality Inventory - statistics & numerical data; Psychiatric Status Rating Scales - standards; Psychiatric Status Rating Scales - statistics & numerical data; Psychometrics; Questionnaires; Reproducibility of Results; Somatoform Disorders - diagnosis; Somatoform Disorders - psychology; Students - psychology; Surveys and Questionnaires; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Validity
• ISSN: 1040-3590
• DOI: 10.1037/1040-3590.19.4.369

The State-Trait Inventory for Cognitive and Somatic Anxiety (STICSA; M. J. Ree, C. MacLeod, D. French, & V. Locke, 2000) was designed to assess cognitive and somatic symptoms of anxiety as they pertain to one's mood in the moment (state) and in general (trait). This study extended the previous psychometric findings to a clinical sample and validated the STICSA against a well-published measure of anxiety, the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI; C. D. Spielberger, 1983). Patients (N = 567) at an anxiety disorders clinic were administered a battery of questionnaires. The results of confirmatory factor analyses (Bentler-Bonnett nonnormed fit index, comparative fit index, and Bollen fit index greater than 0.90; root-mean-square error of approximation less than 0.05); convergent and discriminant validity analyses; and group comparisons supported the reliability and validity of the STICSA as a measure of state and trait cognitive and somatic anxiety. In addition, compared with the STAI (anxiety: rs = 0.52; depression: rs = 0.64), the STICSA was more strongly correlated with another measure of anxiety (rs = 0.67) and was less strongly correlated with a measure of depression (rs = 0.61). These findings suggest that the STICSA may be a purer measure of anxiety symptomatology than is the STAI.