Quantitative Difference in the Experience of State-Trait Anxiety in Emotionally Disturbed and Normal Children
- 1 October 1976
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Personality Assessment
- Vol. 40 (5) , 522-530
- https://doi.org/10.1207/s15327752jpa4005_11
Abstract
In order to investigate the state-trait anxiety distinction in emotionally disturbed and normal children, the responses of 120 emotionally disturbed children and 126 normal children to the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children (Spielberger, 1973) were factor analyzed separately. For the emotionally disturbed group two A-State and two A-Trait factors were found with the A-State factors accounting for significantly more of the variance than did A-Trait factors. For the normal group four A-State and two A-Trait factors were found, but there was not a significant difference between the amount of variance accounted for by A-State and A-Trait factors. Results were discussed as supporting the state-trait distinction and as having several implications for future research on anxiety.Keywords
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