Chilean experimental version of the State-Trait Depression Questionnaire (ST-DEP): State subscale (S-DEP).

Depression is the most prevalent mental disorder and one of the most important health problems in Chile. The current study shows data for validity and reliability of the State subscale (S-DEP) of the Chilean experimental version of the State-Trait Depression Questionnaire (ST-DEP). The procedure conducted with the original version of the questionnaire was replicated on a sample of 300 university students.

[The French adaptation of the STAXI-2, C.D. Spielberger's State-trait anger expression inventory].

The assessment of anger has received increasing attention because of growing evidence that anger and hostility are related to heart disease. Research on anger assessment has also been stimulated by the development of psychometric measures for evaluating different aspects of anger. First, we review the major self-report scales used to assess anger and hostility.

Analysis of convergent and discriminant validity of the Spanish experimental version of the State-Trait Depression Questionnaire (ST-DEP).

Introduction: This article reports data on the convergent and divergent validity of the Spanish adaptation of Spielberger's State-Trait Depression Questionnaire (ST-DEP). This questionnaire is a new tool because it offers an alternative to the obstacles found in most of the depression assessment scales that are differentiated in the content they evaluate and their estimation of depression levels.

Methodology: The present study was carried out with a sample of 300 participants (103 males and 197 females), with mean age of 21.

Effects of anxiety on communication tasks for children in traditional and individualized-multiage classrooms.

The effects of anxiety on concept acquisition were evaluated for first and second grade children enrolled in either a traditional or in an individualized or multiage learning program, the latter specifically designed to reduce anxiety during the learning process. Regardless of their learning environment, first graders who scored high on trait anxiety, measured by the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children, performed more poorly than those with low trait anxiety. Individualized-multiage second grade children scored lower on state anxiety than children in the traditional group.

Evaluating performance of law enforcement personnel during a stressful training scenario.

Police trainees who were ready to graduate from the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) volunteered to participate in an exercise designed to evaluate their survivability. In a highly stressful interactive scenario, which included a hostage situation, performance was evaluated for a range of responses, including: shooting judgment and accuracy, communications, and coping with a weapon malfunction. Nineteen percent of subjects shot the hostage, a failure rate that falls in the reported range of friendly fire casualties in military combat.