Pdf manual for the statetrait anxiety inventory form y1 y2. Pdf stai spielberger state trait anxiety inventory. Read each statement and then write the number in the. The stai includes a 40 question response taking approximately 1020 minutes for completion and the test is given in tens of different languages worldwide. If you like, there is also a depression selfrating scale.
It comprises separate selfreport scales for measuring state and trait anxiety. Generalized anxiety disorder 7item gad7 scale over the last 2 weeks, how often have you been bothered by the following problems. Pdf on jan 1, 1983, charles d spielberger and others published manual for the statetrait anxiety inventory form y1 y2 find, read and. Appendix a statetrait anxiety inventory stai form y1. Psychometric properties of the statetrait anxiety inventory mdpi. This test is split into the sanxiety scale and the t. Fill out, securely sign, print or email your state trait anxiety inventory form instantly with signnow. Patients suffering from trait anxiety usually experience it as a permanent psychological trait. The single trait and three state versions have excellent. The second scale is the trait anxiety scale tanxiety. Trait anxiety tanxiety refers to relatively stable individual differences in anxietyproneness, that is, to differences between people in the tendency to perceive stressful situation as dangerous or threatening and to respond to such situations with elevations in the intensity of their state anxiety sanxiety reactions.
First, the state anxiety scale s anxiety evaluates the currentstateofanxiety,askinghowrespondentsfeelright now, using items that measure subjective feelings of apprehension, tension, nervousness, worry, and activation arousal of the autonomic nervous system. The statetrait anxiety inventory stai american psychological. It also is often used in research as an indicator of caregiver distress. Spielberger state trait anxiety inventory stai spielberger 1983 is a selfreported instrument. The stai measures two types of anxiety state anxiety, or anxiety about an event, and trait anxiety, or anxiety level as a personal characteristic.
Anxiety evaluates the current state of anxiety, asking how respondents feel right now, using items that measure subjective feelings of apprehension, tension, nervousness, worry, and activationarousal of the autonomic nervous system. It is a measure of the degree to which situations in ones life are appraised as stressful. The statetrait anxiety inventory stai is one of the widelyused used scales for evaluating anxiety in elderly people. Anxiety about aging scale aas geriatric anxiety inventory gai the liebowitz social anxiety scale lsas. Children, with or without disability, are helped when pictures are used to support communication. A study of the statetrait anxiety inventory and the. The stai contains separate scales for measuring state and trait anxiety. Twohundred ventilated patients were recruited from nine icus in the urban midwest.
Development and validation of the physical appearance state and trait anxiety scale pastas. It can be used in clinical settings to diagnose anxiety and to distinguish it from depressive syndromes. State anxiety refers to transitory unpleasant feelings of apprehension, tension, nervousness or worry. The stai, or state trait anxiety inventory stai is an instrument that quantifies adult anxiety a childrens version is also available. State trait anxiety inventory for adults stai acer. The trait anxiety scale t anxiety evaluates relatively stable aspects of. The staic consists of two 20item scales that measure state and trait anxiety in children between the ages of 8 and 14. For each item decide if it never applies to you mark 0. Development and validation of the penn state worry questionnaire. The development of a sixitem shortform of the state scale of the.
The amsterdam preoperative anxiety and information scale. Indicate how much you have been bothered by that symptom during the past month, including today, by circling the number in the. The second scale is the trait anxiety scale t anxiety. The trait anxiety scale tanxiety evaluates relatively stable aspects of. Validation of the anxiety scale for pregnancy in a sample. A number of statements that players have used to describe their feelings before competition are given below. Please print these pages out for your personal reference.
The sticsa state assesses how respondents feel right now, at. The statetrait anxiety inventory has 40 items divided into two scales, sanxiety and tanxiety 20 items each. A statetrait anxiety inventory stai form y1 shodhganga. Child first focus on innovation and redesign in systems. Preoperative anxiety complicates treatment and requires assessment by nurses in children.
The most secure digital platform to get legally binding, electronically signed documents in just a few seconds. Higher scores are positively correlated with higher levels of anxiety. As the scale is brief and easily administered, is public access and free of charge to schools, and is shown to be a reliable and valid measure, it is recommended that the westside test anxiety scale be considered by intervention programs to screen for testanxiety impairments. Pdf in this study, we evaluated the continuous and state anxiety levels of mothers with children with language delay. First, the state anxiety scale sanxiety evaluates the currentstateofanxiety,askinghowrespondentsfeelright now, using items that measure subjective feelings of apprehension, tension, nervousness, worry, and activation arousal of the autonomic nervous system. The astate scale examines the shorterterm state anxiety that is commonly specific to situations. A number of statements which people have used to describe themselves are given below.
It prompts the child to rate 20 statements from hardly ever true to often true. Assessing childrens anxiety using the modified short. Another critique of the use of stai scale for measuring. Physical appearance state and traits anxiety scale pastas. Read each statement and then tick the appropriate column to the right of the statement to indicate how you feel right now. Such a concept may even connect more closely to the use of neurophysiological measures and. Assessment anxiety the penn state worry questionnaire pswq. State anxiety can vary in intensity and can change over time. Perceived stress scale by sheldon cohen the perceived stress scale pss is the most widely used psychological instrument for measuring the perception of stress. While test anxiety trait is a fairly stable attribute, test anxiety state tends to be volatile over time 3, 4. Using the astate raw score alone as an index of bias resulted in 95. Items were designed to tap how unpredictable, uncontrollable, and overloaded respondents find their lives. The stai scale is suitable for assessing the general level of anxiety, but it does not measure pregnancyspecific stressors 2.
Anxiety can manifest itself in two recognizable ways, state or trait. The license to reproduce is a data license for research purposes only. The trait anxiety is a relatively stable personality disposition, while state anxiety is the situationrelated anxiety and this may differ depending on the stress of the particular moment. Statetrait anxiety inventory for adults mental health solutions. Users guide all versions rcads full 47item versions. Stai scoring tool this tool is for use by researchers or their assistants to score the statetrait anxiety inventory for adults stai, form y, which is made available to psychological researchers from mind garden, inc instructions press keys 1 through 4 on your computer keyboard or keypad with the num lock key locked for each answer. This license grants you permission to collect and disclose a item scores and scale scores, b statistical analyses of those scores such as group average, group standard deviation, tscores, etc. Rate the patients by finding the answer which best describes the extent. Test anxiety is defined as the reaction to stimuli that is associated with an individuals experience of testing or evaluating situations. The statetrait anxiety inventory stai, a widely used measure of general anxiety, has also been commonly used in research on pregnancy anxiety 14.
Beck anxiety inventory below is a list of common symptoms of anxiety. It clearly differentiates between the temporary condition of state anxiety and the more general and longstanding quality of trait anxiety helping professionals distinguish between a clients feelings of. Shadows and lights on its construct validity article pdf available in journal of psychopathology and behavioral assessment 354 june 20 with 7,618 reads. The sticsa was based on spielberger s 1966, 1972 theoretical formulation of state and trait anxiety and replicates the stai s format of independent state and trait scales. Stai is a shorter form of statetrait anxiety inventory questionnaire stai means statetrait anxiety inventory questionnaire stai is an abbreviation for statetrait anxiety inventory questionnaire. Pdf statetrait anxiety inventory stai assessment of mothers. The purpose of this pilot study was to test the reliability and validity of the modified short statetrait anxiety inventory stai using a modified talking mats method in children undergoing day. This scale evaluates relatively stable aspects of being prone to anxiety or to be anxious including general states of calmness, confidence, and security.
The statetrait anxiety inventory stai is a commonly used measure of trait and state anxiety spielberger, gorsuch, lushene, vagg. Description and instructions pswqc pswqc korean pswqc danish revised childrens anxiety and depression scale. It was designed to assess levels of state anxiety and traint anxiety, through 40 items scored by a likertscale. The statetrait anxiety inventory stai is a psychological inventory based on a 4point likert scale and consists of 40 questions on a selfreport basis. Physical appearance state and trait anxiety scale state. The state scale is recommended for measuring patient anxiety in the preoperative phase 15 and has been used in several anesthesiologic studies 1619. Trait anxiety inventory stai, beck anxiety inventory bai, and hospital anxiety and depression scale. The 40item statetrait anxiety inventory for adults stai measures anxiety in adults. As would be expected from the conceptual formulation of the stai, trait scores are generally more stable than state scores.
Statetrait anxiety inventory for children staic the. An instrument development study was conducted to develop a shortened scale from the 20item spielberger state anxiety inventory. Exploratory factor analysis techniques were used to create a shortened, 6item scale, which accounted for 66. This particular instrument is used to simplify the separation between state anxiety and trait anxiety, feelings of anxiety and depression. Psychometric properties of the state trait inventory for. Trait version the statements listed below are to be used to describe how anxious, tense, or nervous you feel in general i. Pdf file the statetrait anxiety inventory for children staich is used to measure anxiety in children based on the same theory as the statetrait anxiety inventory for adults stai, the staich distinguishes between a general proneness to anxious behaviour rooted in.
The majority of selfreport scales for anxiety disorders require a second to third grade reading level but take only about 10 to 15 minutes to complete and can be manually scored easily. The sanxiety scale stai form y1 consists of twenty statements that. The stai, or statetrait anxiety inventory stai is an instrument that quantifies adult anxiety a childrens version is also available. The pswq has also been shown to be sensitive to the change in anxiety symptoms in response to treatment. Statetrait anxiety inventory for children staich acer.
Development of a shortened state anxiety scale from the. State anxiety can be defined as a transient momentary. Trait anxiety t anxiety refers to relatively stable individual differences in anxiety proneness, that is, to differences between people in the tendency to perceive stressful situation as dangerous or threatening and to respond to such situations with elevations in the intensity of their state anxiety s anxiety reactions. State trait anxiety inventory stai measures how the subject feels right now on 40 items with answer choices of 1 not at all almost never, 2 somewhatsometimes, 3 moderately so often, and 4 very much so almost always the behavior observation scale plataniasolazzo et al 1992 was completed radial pulse rates were taken for 30 seconds prior to and after the massage session. The current paper reports on the development and validation of trait and state versions of the physical appearance state and trait anxiety scale pastas on a sample of 205 college females. The state trait anxiety inventory has 40 items divided into two scales, s anxiety and t anxiety 20 items each. There is a frequently used scale for assessing the anxiety called statetrait anxiety inventory.