Psychometric comparability of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for different ethnic subpopulations.

This study, which was based on 285 Ss who were experiencing stressful and potentially anxiety-producing situations associated with pain, revealed comparable psychometric adequacy in descriptive statistics and estimates of internal consistency for the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) Form Y across different ethnic groups and gender, namely, White, Black, and Latino men and women. Examination of item-remainder correlations identifies certain particularly salient screening items for Black men and underscores the importance of individualized item analysis in the interpretation of obtained scale scores