Dm. Novy et al., PSYCHOMETRIC COMPARABILITY OF THE ENGLISH-LANGUAGE AND SPANISH-LANGUAGE VERSIONS OF THE STATE-TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY, Hispanic journal of behavioral sciences, 17(2), 1995, pp. 209-224
The psychometric adequacy of the English- and Spanish-language version
s of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) was compared across Engl
ish-speaking Latino American women (n = 17) and men (n = 18) and Spani
sh-speaking Latino American women (n = 10) and men (n = 14) who were e
xperiencing stressful and potentially anxiety-producing situations ass
ociated with physical pain. Subjects were administered the STAI as wel
l as the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) in their p
referred language. Psychometric comparisons of language group and gend
er revealed nonsignificant differences in (a) mean scores on the STAI
scales, (b) internal consistency for the STAI scales, and (c) correlat
ions between the STAI scales and MMPI scales. item analyses identified
several salient screening items for the Spanish-speaking men; several
items with low item-remainder correlations were revealed for the Engl
ish- and Spanish speaking women. Overall, results attest to the psycho
metric strengths of the English- and Spanish-language versions of the
STAI.