01747nas a2200217   4500000000100000008004100001260007600042653001000118653001500128653001900143653002200162100002700184700002900211700002900240245008600269300001200355490000600367520112800373022001401501020001401515       2002                            d  c07/2002bSociedad Española para el Estudio de la Ansiedad y el Estrés10aWorry10aAssessment10aElderly people10aanxiety disorders1 aRoberto Nuevo Benítez1 aIgnacio Montorio Cerrato1 aMiguel Ángel Ruiz Díaz00aApplication of the Penn State Worry Questionnaire (PSWQ) to an elderly population  a157-1720 v83 aThe goal of this paper is to analyze psychometric properties of a Spanish version of Penn State Worry Questionnaire (PSWQ) adapted for elderly people. All items were presented in a positive form to avoid problems in their understanding. Sample was of 97 older persons, selected by randomized sampling from census of an urban locality. PSWQ was originally conceived as an unidimensional questionnaire for assessing trait-worry or a general tendency to worry. The version used here, adapted for elderly people, also works unidimensionally, although those five items that were reversed respect to original PSWQ have lower saturation in the component extracted. So, it might be recommended to reduce the size of the questionnaire. PSWQ presented high sensibility and specificity to identify Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), but there is not enough evidence for its discriminating capacity between GAD and Depression. Moreover, PSWQ had high internal consistency and significant and moderately high correlations with questionnaires assessing closely related constructs, such as contents of worry, trait-anxiety or depression.  a1134-7937  a2174-0437