A factor analytic study of anxiety

✍ Scribed by Barclay Martin

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1958
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 531 KB
• Volume: 14
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-9762
• DOI: 10.1002/1097-4679(195804)14:2<133::aid-jclp2270140206>3.0.co;2-q

✦ Synopsis

PROBLEM

Every study that uses psychometric anxiety as a variable, such as those, for example using the Taylor MAS, must assume that there does indeed exist an individual differences dimension that has some stability and generality, one that can be reliably and validly measured, and one that should properly be called anxiety. In view of the many recent contradictory findings in studies using psychometric anxiety as a variable it is important to attempt some clarification of the nature of this dimension. In the present research a number of measures were selected which previous research had suggested as being affected by individual differences in anxiety and obtained upon a sample of subjects. It was the purpose of this investigation to use the factor analytic model in exploring the nature of any anxiety dimension that might emerge as well as other dimensions that might be involved in performance of these tests.