Use of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory with Children and Adolescents in China: Issues with Reaction Times

2015 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 397-410 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Cao ◽  
Zheng-kui Liu
Keyword(s):  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Trait Anxiety ◽  
Reaction Times ◽  
The State ◽  
Jiangxi Province ◽  
State Trait Anxiety Inventory ◽  
General Anxiety ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
Lower Education Level ◽  
Confirmatory Factor

The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (Form Y; STAI-Y) is a balanced scale with a complex factor structure. Using survey data from children and adolescents in Jiangxi Province, China (N = 1,275), we conducted confirmatory factor analysis to clarify the number of factors in this instrument and to investigate the relationship between reaction time (RT) and anxiety. Results revealed the following 3 dimensions for the STAI-Y: anxiety absent, anxiety present, and general anxiety. Compared with those who answered all the questions (58%), those who missed questions (42%) had a lower education level, a longer RT, and higher scores for items indicating the presence of state or trait anxiety. Our results could provide innovative directions for the improvement and expansion of research using the STAI-Y with children and adolescents.

scholarly journals Validation of the State Version of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory in a University Sample

SAGE Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 215824402110319
Author(s):  
Christopher L. Thomas ◽  
Jerrell C. Cassady
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analysis ◽  
Trait Anxiety ◽  
State Anxiety ◽  
The State ◽  
Cognitive Test ◽  
State Trait Anxiety Inventory ◽  
Cognitive Test Anxiety ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Excellent Internal Consistency

Spielberger’s State-Trait Anxiety Model makes a theoretical distinction between the contribution of dispositional anxiety and the transitory experience of anxiety to performance difficulties during testing situations. According to the State-Trait framework, state anxiety is viewed as the primary performance barrier for test-anxious students, and as such, educators and educational researchers have expressed interest in validated, state anxiety measurement tools. Currently, the most widely used measure of state anxiety is the state version of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory. However, evidence regarding the psychometric properties of this scale is relatively scarce. Therefore, the current study was designed to determine the structural validity, reliability, and concurrent/divergent validity of the instrument. Participants ( N = 294) completed the state version of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, Positive and Negative Affect Schedule, Cognitive Test Anxiety Scale 2nd Edition, and an exam task. Using confirmatory factor analysis, we tested the viability of one-, two-, and bi-factor solutions for the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory. Confirmatory factor analysis results indicated a two-factor solution consisting of State Anxiety and State Calmness dimensions provided superior fit to the observed data. Results of a reliability analysis indicated that the State Anxiety and State Calmness factors demonstrated excellent internal consistency when applied to university students. Our discussion concerns the utility of the State Anxiety factor as a tool for the identification of test-anxious students.

scholarly journals Anxietatea la preadolescenții cu insucces școlar

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-36
Author(s):  
Tatiana Popov
Keyword(s):  
Trait Anxiety ◽  
School Failure ◽  
The State ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Moderate Level ◽  
State Trait Anxiety Inventory ◽  
General Anxiety ◽  
Low Achieving Students ◽  
High Level ◽  
Manifest Anxiety

Currently, preadolescents face states of anxiety generated by the complexity of the educational process, by school failure. The student - anxiously refuses to go to school due to stressful situations. Anxiety causes a decrease in attention and adequate perception of reality, creates a general emotional discomfort. General anxiety is characterized by low productivity, shyness, low self-confi dence, hypermobility, poor assimilation of knowledge. The study was conducted on a group of 30 low-achieving students in grades VIII-X aged 14-16. The level of anxiety was studied by applying two techniques: the State-Trait-Anxiety Inventory (STAI) inventory by D. Spielberger and the Manifest Anxiety Scale (MAS) developed by Taylor and James Garden. The results showed a moderate level of anxiety stable at 33.3% and a high level of anxiety stable at 43.3%, and more than 86.6% of students show general anxiety at severe and moderate level.

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

2010 ◽  
Vol 92 (6) ◽  
pp. 560-567 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arturo Bados ◽  
Juana Gómez-Benito ◽  
Gemma Balaguer
Keyword(s):  
Trait Anxiety ◽  
The State ◽  
State Trait Anxiety Inventory
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