STAI의 韓國標準化에 關한 硏究 = A Study Based on the Standardization of the STAI for Korea

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Anxiety is coming to be seen as a fundamental variable of psychological disorders in the clinical and counseling settings of today for the most part. Moreover one cannot minimize the importance of anxiety scales for understanding the basic emotions that man experiences in his daily life.
This study attempted to standardize the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), particularly for Korean adolescents with the goal in view that this kind of inventory could be usefully adopted in clinical/counseling centers where emotional problems of adolescents are treated. The STAI consists of 20 items which measure state anxiety, conceptualized to be atransitory emotional state (STAI Form X-1), and 20 items intended to assess trait anxiety, which is conceptualized to be a relatively unchanging anxiety tendency which differs from person to person (Form X-2); Therefore trait-anxiety is considered to be both a motive and an acquired behavioral disposition.
The researchers presented the STAI to a random sampling of 816 high school students (391 males, 425 females) from four high schools in Seoul and 816 university students (440 males, 376 females) from six universities also in Seoul.
The standardization process resulted in:
1) A normal T distribution chart for Korean adolescents.
2) A normal Percentile Ranking distribution,
3) The finding that Korean adolescents show markedly higher levels of both state and trait anxiety when their mean scores are compared with their Amorican counterparts.