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The Spielberger trait anxiety inventory measures more than anxiety

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

Hervé Caci ,
Franck J. Baylé ,
Christelle Dossios ,
Philippe Robert  and
Patrice Boyer
Hervé Caci
Affiliation:
Service de Pédiatrie, CHU de Nice, Hôpital Archet 2, 151, route de Saint-Antoine de Ginestière, BP 3079, 06202Nice cedex 3, France
Franck J. Baylé
Affiliation:
E OII7 Inserm, Université Paris V et, Service Hospitalo-Universitaire de Santé Mentale et de Thérapeutique, Centre Hospitalier Sainte-Anne, 1, rue Cabanis, 75674Paris cedex, France
Christelle Dossios
Affiliation:
Service de Pédiatrie, CHU de Nice, Hôpital Archet 2, 151, route de Saint-Antoine de Ginestière, BP 3079, 06202Nice cedex 3, France
Philippe Robert
Affiliation:
Centre Mémoire, Clinique de Psychiatrie et de Psychologie Médicale, Hôpital Pasteur, Pavillon J, CHU de Nice, 30, avenue de la Voie-Romaine, 06100Nice, France
Patrice Boyer
Affiliation:
CNRS UMR 7593, Hôpital de la Salpétrière, Pavillon de Clérambault, 47, boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013Paris, France
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Abstract

Objective

Researchers tried to explain the overlap between anxiety and depression by suggesting that some items of self-administered questionnaires were badly selected and that both constructs should rather be considered as multidimensional. Thus, we hypothesise that the Spielberger trait anxiety inventory (TAI) includes items related to depression.

Method

A non-clinical sample of 193 subjects filled out the TAI and the Hospitalised Anxiety–Depression Scale. Factors were postulated on the basis of item content and submitted to confirmatory factor analysis (CFA).

Results

We found five factors: a 10-item anxiety factor containing three factors, a four-item unsuccessfulness factor correlated with the HADS anhedonia factor, and a six-item happiness factor.

Conclusion

The TAI scale encompasses measures of anxiety, depression and well-being. Consequently, the overlap with other measures of depression may result from item selection. This work awaits replication in independent normal and pathological samples.

Keywords

PersonalityAnxietyDepressionQuestionnaireStructural equation modellingConfirmatory factor analysis
Type
Original article
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 18 , Issue 8 , December 2003 , pp. 394 - 400
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Copyright © 2003 European Psychiatric Association

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