Reliability of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory
- 1 April 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 40 (2) , 357-358
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1977.40.2.357
Abstract
The test/retest reliability of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory was studied utilizing 49 male freshman medical students. Test/retest reliabilities were obtained for three periods of administration, August-April, August-July, and April-July (8 mo., 11 mo., and 3 mo. respectively). As predicted for anxiety-state, low reliabilities were obtained. Anxiety trait reliabilities varied from .539 to .292. This trend of moderate to low reliabilities over relatively long periods of time may cause researchers to be cautious about long-term predictive reliabilities of anxiety trait.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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