Short form of the Spanish adaptation of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory

Buela-Casal, Gualberto; Guillén-Riquelme, Alejandro

doi:10.1016/j.ijchp.2017.07.003

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“…Firstly, by using a community sample no knowledge about validity of scores of the VAA-R has been obtained for Spanish children diagnosed clinically. Nor has it been confirmed the convergent validity of this scale with other anxiety measures (e.g., Spanish short form of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory; Buela-Casal & Guillén-Riquelme, 2017 ). The concreteness of the study of anxiety profiles in child population has not allowed knowing their evolution in adolescence.…”

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Validation of the Visual Analogue Scale for Anxiety-Revised and school refusal across anxiety profiles

Fernández-Sogorb

Inglés

Sanmartín

et al. 2018

International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology

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Background/ObjectivesThis paper aimed to validate the Spanish version of scores of the Visual Analogue Scale for Anxiety-Revised (VAA-R) in child population, and to verify the existence of anxiety profiles and to relate them to school refusal.MethodThe sample was made up of 911 Spanish students between 8 and 12 years old (M = 9.61, SD = 1.23). The measures used were the VAA-R and the School Refusal Assessment Scale-Revised for Children (SRAS-R-C).ResultsConfirmatory factorial analysis supported the three-dimensional VAA-R structure: Anticipatory Anxiety (AA), School-based performance Anxiety (SA) and Generalized Anxiety (GA). The VAA-R has an adequate reliability and structural invariance across sex and age. No latent mean differences were found across sex, but did occur through age in AA and GA factors. Cluster analysis identified four child anxiety profiles: High Anxiety, High Anxiety School-type, Low Anxiety, and Moderate Anxiety, which differed significantly in all dimensions of school refusal.ConclusionsThese findings may be useful for the assessment and treatment of anxious symptoms originated at school.

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Validation of the Visual Analogue Scale for Anxiety-Revised and school refusal across anxiety profiles

Fernández-Sogorb

Inglés

Sanmartín

et al. 2018

International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology

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“…SAD has an early onset ( Fehm, Beesdo, Jacobi, & Fiedler, 2008 ), a relatively high prevalence in adolescents (with estimated rates between 5.0% and 9.1%; Costello et al, 2011 , Merikangas et al, 2010 ), and a negative prognosis in the absence of treatment ( Bornas, de la Torre-Luque, Fiol-Veny, & Balle, 2017 ). These findings suggest that having time and cost-effective, valid, and reliable screening tools available to accurately detect this disorder and monitor treatment progress is crucial ( Buela-Casal, & Guillén-Riquelme, 2017 ).…”

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Short Form of the Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents among community and institutionalized Portuguese youths

Nunes

Ayala-Nunes

Pechorro

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International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology

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Background/Objective: Social anxiety is a common issue arising in adolescence that can cause significant impairment and have detrimental consequences for development in the absence of treatment. In this study we examined the factor structure and the psychometric properties of a 12-item short form of the Portuguese-Language Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents (SAS-A-SF). Method: A community adolescent sample (N = 835) and a young offender sample (N = 244) completed the SAS-A, the Basic Empathy Scale and the Reactive-Proactive Aggression Questionnaire. Confirmatory factor analysis, internal consistency, cross gender and cross sample invariance, convergent and discriminant validity of the SAS-A-SF were analyzed. Results: The confirmatory factor analysis revealed that the 3-factor second-order model obtained the best fit.The results provided evidence that the SAS-A-SF is a psychometrically sound instrument that shows measurement invariance across genders and across samples, good reliability and positive correlations with empathy. Conclusions: The Portuguese version of SAS-A-SF is a useful, time-efficient tool for both researchers and practitioners who need to assess social anxiety, a relevant construct in adolescent psychopathology.

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“…Higher scores indicate greater severity. We used the Spanish version of this scale [ 60 ]. In this study, Cronbach’s α was 0.89.…”

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In-Treatment Changes in Quality of Life-Related Variables in Therapeutic Communities for Cocaine Abusers: Are These Changes Associated with Clinical Outcomes?

González‐Sáiz

Vergara-Moragues

2021

IJERPH

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Background: Few studies have explored changes in quality of life during the first three months of admission to a therapeutic community for addictions. The objective of this study was to determine the relationship between these changes and treatment outcomes at discharge. Methods: We undertook a prospective longitudinal study of 142 cocaine-dependent patients treated at a therapeutics community. All of these patients reached the 3-month evaluation and were subsequently followed until discharge. All participants completed the following measures: Health-Related Quality of Life for Drug Abusers Test; Beck Depression Inventory; State–Trait Anxiety Inventory; Opiate Treatment Index; Dual Diagnosis and Discharge Checklist. Results: At the 3-month assessment, scores on the Health-Related Quality of Life for Drug Abusers Test had increased significantly (Cohen’s d: 0.92), while scores on the Opiate Treatment Index (Cohen’s d: 0.86) and Beck Depression Inventory (Cohen’s d: 0.20) scales both decreased significantly. A higher proportion of the patients considered to have achieved “clinically relevant” treatment outcomes at discharge versus those without clinically relevant outcomes were considered “recovered” according to the Reliable Change Index. Conclusions: An improvement in quality of life-related variables from baseline to the 3-month assessment was associated with better outcomes at discharge from the therapeutic community. The findings of this study may help us to optimise therapeutic interventions.

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Short form of the Spanish adaptation of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory

Cited by 59 publications

References 33 publications

Validation of the Visual Analogue Scale for Anxiety-Revised and school refusal across anxiety profiles

Validation of the Visual Analogue Scale for Anxiety-Revised and school refusal across anxiety profiles

Short Form of the Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents among community and institutionalized Portuguese youths

In-Treatment Changes in Quality of Life-Related Variables in Therapeutic Communities for Cocaine Abusers: Are These Changes Associated with Clinical Outcomes?

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