title: Qualitative difference in the experience of state-trait anxiety in emotionally disturbed and normal children.
abstract: In order to investigate the state-trait anxiety distinction in emotionally disturbed and normal children, the responses of 120 emotionally disturbed children and 126 normal children to the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children (Spielberger, 1973) were factor analyzed separately. For the emotionally disturbed group two A-State and two A-Trait factors were found with the A-State factors accounting for significantly more of the variance than did A-Trait factors. For the normal group four A-State and two A-Trait factors were found, but there was not a significant difference between the amount of variance accounted for by A-State and A-Trait factors. Results were discussed as supporting the state-trait distinction and as having several implications for future research on anxiety.
mesh_terms: D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000150:complications*; D001007:Anxiety / Q000150:complications* / Q000209:etiology; D002648:Child; D004328:Drive; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010551:Personality