FRENCH-CANADIAN ADAPTATION OF A REVISED FORM OF THE STATE-TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY BY SPIELBERGER

This article describes a series of studies on the French-Canadian adaptation of the latest version of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (Form Y) (Spielberger, 1983). Results confirms the quality of the translation, which is entitled in French Inventaire d'Anxiete Situationnelle et de Trait d'Anxiete (IASTA-Y). Analyses of reliability and construct validity show that psychometric qualities are similar to those of the STAI-Y. Finally, norms in percentile ranks and T scores are presented for each scale, the State-Anxiety Scale and the Trait-Anxiety Scale.