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Comparative Study
. 1992 Oct;71(2):503-12.
doi: 10.2466/pr0.1992.71.2.503.

Scores on the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for children in a longitudinal study of pubertal Spanish youth

J Canals  1 , C Martí-Henneberg, J Fernández-Ballart, R Clivillé, E Domènech
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Comparative Study

Scores on the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for children in a longitudinal study of pubertal Spanish youth

J Canals et al. Psychol Rep. 1992 Oct.

Abstract

Changes in scores on the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children for a sample of 534 pubertal adolescents were longitudinally studied over a period of 4 years. Biological development and other variables were investigated. For the 310 boys, A-trait scores decreased significantly with age. The 224 girls showed significantly higher scores than boys in all years of the study. No significant relationship was found between anxiety and pubertal maturity. The year-to-year persistence in symptomatology of anxiety ranged between 55.6% and 66.1% for girls and between 48.5% and 53.1% for boys. Girls showed bi- and tri-annual persistence between 31% and 50%, and boys between 13% and 27%. Neuroticism scores formed the best predictor of A-trait scores. Symptomatology of anxiety is not transient during early adolescence, so personality may provide a risk indicator in the development of anxiety.

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