How Do You Read A STAI Score?

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The total score ranges from 0–63. The following guidelines are recommended for the interpretation of scores: 0–9,

normal or no

; 10–18, mild to moderate anxiety; 19–29, moderate to severe anxiety; and 30–63, severe anxiety.

How do you read STAI results?

The total score ranges from 0–63. The following guidelines are recommended for the interpretation of scores: 0–9,

normal or no anxiety

; 10–18, mild to moderate anxiety; 19–29, moderate to severe anxiety; and 30–63, severe anxiety.

What does the STAI measure?

Description of Measure: The

State-Trait Anxiety Inventory

(STAI) is a commonly used measure of trait and state anxiety (Spielberger, Gorsuch, Lushene, Vagg, & Jacobs, 1983). It can be used in clinical settings to diagnose anxiety and to distinguish it from depressive syndromes.

How is trait anxiety measured?

Common self-report measures of trait anxiety are reviewed with an emphasis on:

components assessed, factor structure, internal consistency, reliability, and construct validity

. Measures were selected if instructions ask individuals to endorse items based on their characteristic, rather than a time sensitive, response.

What is a high trait anxiety score?

STAI scores are commonly classified as “no or low anxiety” (20-37), “moderate anxiety” (38-44), and “high anxiety”

(45-80)

.

What is the Stai 6?

In the STAI-6 tool,

there are six questions with a Likert scale from 1 to 4

. This gives a score range from 6 to 24. To create scores compatible with the original STAI-S scores, the STAI-6 scores will be divided by 6 and multiplied by 20 to give a range from 20 to 80.

How does trait anxiety affect performance?

Results showed that high trait anxious individuals experience

more state cognitive and state somatic anxiety

and less state self- confidence than low trait anxious athletes. Additionally, high school athletes experienced more somatic state anxiety than did college athletes.

What is the scale anxiety score?

The total score ranges from

0–63

. The following guidelines are recommended for the interpretation of scores: 0–9, normal or no anxiety; 10–18, mild to moderate anxiety; 19–29, moderate to severe anxiety; and 30–63, severe anxiety.

What level of measurement is level of anxiety?

For example, an

interval level of measurement

could be the measurement of anxiety in a student between the score of 10 and 11, this interval is the same as that of a student who scores between 40 and 41.

What is a positive GAD-7 score?

Scores of 5, 10, and 15 are taken as the cut-off points for mild, moderate and severe anxiety, respectively. When used as a screening tool, further evaluation is recommended when the score is

10 or

greater. Using the threshold score of 10, the GAD-7 has a sensitivity of 89% and a specificity of 82% for GAD.

What is Debilitative anxiety?

a level of anxiety that an individual

(e.g., an actor, an athlete) perceives as interfering with performance

. Examples include being psyched out (see psyching out) or “out of the zone.”

How do you score the Beck anxiety Inventory?

The values for each item are summed yielding an overall or total score for all 21 symptoms that can range between 0 and 63 points. A total score of

0 – 7

is interpreted as a “Minimal” level of anxiety; 8 – 15 as “Mild”; 16 – 25 as “Moderate”, and; 26 – 63 as “Severe”.

How reliable is the Stai?

Results: The STAI was established with the

reliability at . 850

. In addition, the construct validity of the STAI, as measured by factor analysis were found, the correlation between items (KMO) score .

Is the Stai valid?

A high degree of significant level between baseline and post-treatment scores was observed across nearly half of the items in surgical group but not in the non-LUTS group (control subjects). The

STAI is reliable, valid and sensitive to clinical change in

a sample of Malaysian patients with and without urinary symptoms.

Who invented Stai?

The STAI was developed by

Spielberger et al.

(1970) to measure anxiety from the perspective of states vs. traits. The state measurement assesses how the individual feels “right now” or at this moment.

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