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An inventory for measuring clinical anxiety: Psychometric properties.
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The development ofa 2 l-item self-report inventory for measuring the severity of anxiety in psychiat-ric populations i described. The initial item pool f86 items was drawn from three preexisting scales: the Anxiety Checklist, the Physician's Desk Reference Checklist, and the Situational Anxiety Checklist. A series of analyses was used to reduce the item pool. The resulting Beck Anxiety Inven-tory (BAI) is a 21-item scale that showed high internal consistency (a =.92) and test-retest reliability over 1 week, r(81) =.75. TheBAI discriminated anxious diagnostic groups (panic disorder, general-ized anxiety disorder, etc.) from nonanxious diagnostic groups (major depression, dysthymic disor-der, etc). In addition, the BAI was moderately correlated with the revised Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale, r(150) =.51, and was only mildly correlated with the revised Hamilton Depression Rating Scale, r(l 53) =.25. Studies addressing the distinctiveness ofanxiety and depres-sion depend on the availability of reliable and valid assessment instruments. However, a number of studies have reported high correlations (r>.50) between the widely used rating scales of anxiety and depression (e.g., Dobson, 1985; Mendels,
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“Additional psychosocial measures consisted of the Beck Anxiety Inventory (Beck, Epstein, Brown, & Steer, 1988), the Penn Alcohol/Drug Craving Scale (Flannery, Volpecelli, & Pettinati, 1999) and the PTSD Symptom Checklist (Blanchard, Jones-Alexander, Buckley, &Forneris, 1996).”
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“The BAI is a 21-item multiple-choice self-report inventory with good reliability, Cronbach's α = 0.92, and is considered to be an accurate measure of anxiety in adults over the age of 17 (Beck et al., 1988); it is recommended for use with survivors of domestic violence (Satyanarayana & Chandra, 2010).”
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“The Beck Anxiety Inventory, a 21-item multiple-choice self-report inventory, has been identified as having good internal reliability, with a Cronbach's alpha of .92, and is considered to be an accurate measure of anxiety in adults over the age of 17 ( Beck et al., 1988 ).”
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“This scale has shown high internal consistency (α = 0.92) and test-retest reliability over one week, r(81) = 0.75, and was developed to avoid confounding with depression (Beck et al., 1988).”
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“The BAI has high internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha , .90),adequate test-retest reliability (rs ..60), and moderate to high convergent and discriminant validity.”
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“and has demonstrated strong reliability and validity [98, 99].”
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“In this study, the internal consistency (Cronbach α at baseline) was 0.91 for the overall scale.”
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“The questionnaire has been validated and shown to have high internal consistency. 31”
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“The Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) is a scale that measures anxiety using a list of 21 anxiety symptoms and has high reliability and good validity (Beck et al., 1988; Muntingh et al., 2011).”
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“Για την ποσοτική αξιολόγηση της τρέχουσας καταθλιπτικής και αγχώδους συμπτωματολογίας, καθώς και της προβληματικής κατανάλωσης αλκοόλ, χρησιμοποιήθηκαν, αντίστοιχα, οι κλίμακες Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9 27,28 ), Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI 29,30 ) και CAGE. 31,32”
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“This instrument was developed to measure symptoms of anxiety that are largely independent from symptoms of depression. This means that the questionnaire mainly evaluates somatic aspects of anxiety rather than general stress‐related anxiety symptoms,17 and a higher score reflects an increased level of anxiety.”
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“It revealed an internal consistency of α = 0.90, a split-half reliability of r = 0.70, a retest reliability of r = 0.75, and convergent validities of 0.50 ≤ r ≤ 0.61.”
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“The BAI is reported to have high internal consistency and its one-week test-retest reliability is satisfactory.”
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“Anxiety alone was measured in 10 studies, for example, the Generalised Anxiety Disorder Assessment 131 in five studies and the Beck Anxiety Inventory 132 in two.”
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“High scores on the BAI reflect high level of anxiety symptoms reported by the individual and a reduction in score corresponds with reported improvement in anxiety symptoms.”
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“The BAI has high internal consistency, α = .92, and good test-rest reliability, r = .81, at one week in clinical samples (Beck et al., 1988).”
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“Anxiety was also evaluated with the Generalised Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD- 7) scale [54] and Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) [55].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Beck, A. T., Epstein, N., Brown, G., & Steer, R. A.
- Venue
- Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
- Published
- 1988
- Volume
- 56
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 893-897
- ISSN
- 0022-006X (ISSN-L)
- 1939-2117
- OpenAlex
- W4238079920
- Semantic Scholar
- 1a3e334f16b6888843a8150ddf7e4f46b2b28fd5
- Cited by
- 14,407
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 16.37
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (MH-38843)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Psychometric Methodologies and Testing
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Psychological Testing and Assessment
- Keywords
- clinical anxiety, anxiety assessment, psychometric properties, inventory development
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Anxiety Disorders, Female, Humans, Male, Personality Inventory, Psychometrics
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