The state-trait anxiety inventory, trait version: Does it really measure anxiety?

Journal of Personality Assessment

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 560-567

  Bados, Arturo ^a   Gómez Benito, Juana ^a   Balaguer, Gemma ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERSONALITY TEST; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPAIN; STANDARD; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; ANXIETY; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPAIN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77958452207     PISSN: 00223891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00223891.2010.513295     Document Type: Article

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