01151nas a2200253 4500000000100000008004100001260001800042653001300060653001600073653003600089653002300125100003300148700002300181700002400204700003800228700003300266700002900299245013000328856006600458300001000524490000700534520034200541022001400883 2017 d cnovbElsevier10aValidity10aReliability10aFactorial confirmatory analysis10aDominican Republic1 aZoilo Emilio García-Batista1 aKiero Guerra-Peña1 aAntonio Cano-Vindel1 aSolmary Xiomara Herrera-Martínez1 aPablo Ezequiel Flores-Kanter1 aLeonardo Adrián Medrano00aPsychometric properties of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory in the general and hospital population of the Dominican Republic uhttp://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1134793717300386 a53-580 v233 aBackground The present study aims to: a) examine the internal structure of STAI in the Dominican population; b) verify internal consistency; c) obtain evidence of criterion validity by correlating STAI scores with depression, and d) compare STAI scores in general and hospital population, to examine their discriminative capacity. Method a1134-7937