caa a22 4500 388052910 CHVBK 20180307125058.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1998 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0714980800012708 doi S0714980800012708 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0714980800012708 Psychometric Properties of the French Version of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (form Y) Adapted for Older Adults [Elektronische Daten] Although there are reports that the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) should be adapted to older adults, the standard version of the instrument is consistently used with this population. Bouchard, Gauthier, Ivers and Paradis (1996) have adapted a French version of the STAI for a population of older adults and found one item with extremely low item-remainder correlation. In Study 1 (N = 57), alternative formulations of item 24 were assessed to examine if the low item-remainder correlation was related to problems in translation that could become apparent in a sample of older adults. Study 2 (N= 188) was conducted in order to replicate the findings of Study 1 and assess the factor structure of the instrument. In Study 3, 46 older adults completed the instrument on two occasions with a 35-day interval to assess test-retest reliability. Our results suggest that: (a) item 24 should be removed from the trait anxiety scale and be replaced by the mean of the other anxiety-present items; (b) the instrument has a four-factor structure similar to what is found with the standard version of the STAI in nonelderly samples; and (c) both subscales are highly stable. Copyright © Canadian Association on Gerontology 1998 Elderly nationallicence Anxiety Measurement nationallicence State-Trait Anxiety Inventory nationallicence Psychometry nationallicence Personnes âgées nationallicence anxiété nationallicence évaluation de l'anxiété nationallicence inventaire d'anxiété situ-ationelle et de trait d'anxiété nationallicence psychometrie nationallicence Bouchard Stéphane Université du Québec à Hull, Centre de Recherche Université Laval Robert-Giffard, Centre Hospitalier Pierre-Janet Ivers Hans Université Laval Gauthier Janel G. Université Laval Pelletier Marie-Hélène Université Laval Savard Josée Université Laval Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement Cambridge University Press 17/4(1998), 440-453 0714-9808 17:4<440 1998 17 CJG https://doi.org/10.1017/S0714980800012708 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0714980800012708 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bouchard Stéphane Université du Québec à Hull, Centre de Recherche Université Laval Robert-Giffard, Centre Hospitalier Pierre-Janet NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ivers Hans Université Laval NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Gauthier Janel G. Université Laval NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Pelletier Marie-Hélène Université Laval NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Savard Josée Université Laval NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement Cambridge University Press 17/4(1998), 440-453 0714-9808 17:4<440 1998 17 CJG CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge