The Spielberger trait anxiety inventory measures more than anxiety

• Published in: European psychiatry Vol. 18; no. 8; pp. 394 - 400
• Main Authors: Caci, Hervé, Baylé, Franck J., Dossios, Christelle, Robert, Philippe, Boyer, Patrice
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Paris Elsevier SAS 01.12.2003; Elsevier
• Subjects: Adult; Anxiety; Anxiety Disorders - diagnosis; Anxiety Disorders - psychology; Biological and medical sciences; Confirmatory factor analysis; Depression; Depressive Disorder - diagnosis; Depressive Disorder - psychology; Female; Happiness; Humans; Male; Mathematical Computing; Medical sciences; Models, Statistical; Personality; Personality Inventory - statistics & numerical data; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychometrics - statistics & numerical data; Psychometrics. Diagnostic aid systems; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Questionnaire; Reference Values; Reproducibility of Results; Statistics as Topic; Structural equation modelling; Students - psychology; Students, Medical - psychology; Students, Nursing - psychology; Techniques and methods; Confirmatory factor analysis; Depression; Personality; Anxiety; Questionnaire; Structural equation modelling; Mood disorder; Abbreviated form; Human; Evaluation; Healthy subject; Trait Anxiety Scale Spielberger et al; Anxiety disorder; Psychometrics; Student; Test reliability; Recommendation; Item analysis; Test validation; Construct validity; Symptomatology; Comparative study

Objective. – Researchers tried to explain the overlap between anxiety and depression by suggesting that some items of self-administered questionnaires were badly selected and that both constructs should rather be considered as multidimensional. Thus, we hypothesise that the Spielberger trait anxiety...