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| Psychometric properties of the French version of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (form Y) adapted for older adults | | Author(s) | Stéphane Bouchard, Hans Ivers, Janel G Gauthier |
| Journal title | Canadian Journal on Aging, vol 17, no 4, Winter 1998 |
| Pages | pp 440-453 |
| Keywords | Anxiety ; Evaluation ; Canada. |
| Annotation | Although there are reports that the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) should be adapted to older adults, the standard version of the instrument is consistently used with this population. Bouchard et al (in 1996) have adapted a French version of the STAI for a population of older adults and found one item with extremely low item-remainder correlation. In Study 1 (n=57), alternative formulations of item 24 were assessed to examine if the low item-remainder correlation was related to problems in translation that could become apparent in a sample of older adults. Study 2 (n=188) was conducted in order to replicate the findings of Study 1 and assess the factor structure of the instrument. In Study 3, 46 older adults completed the instrument on two occasions with a 35-day interval to assess test-retest reliability. Results suggest that: item 24 should be removed from the trait anxiety scale and be replaced by the mean of the other anxiety-present items; the instrument has a 4-factor structure similar to what is found with the standard version of the STAI in samples of under 65s; and both sub-scales are highly stable. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990331220 A |
| Classmark | ENP: 4C: 7S |
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