Abstract
Anxiety affects men and women and have a negative impact on their lives. This paper presents two structural equation models (SEM) to evaluate the variables (physiological and cognitive), that most influenced the anxiety in men and women offenders of the law. Was used a representative sample of 60 offenders of the law (30 mens and 30 womens) of the Specialized Attention Center (SAC) “Carlos Lleras Restrepo” in Medellin, Colombia with diagnosis of Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD). The results of Bartlett's and KMO tests, indicated that the factorial analysis is adequate, all the constructs are statistically significant. The goodness-of-fit test indicated that the model fits well with the data. This paper concludes that, of the two constructs considered: physiological and cognition, in the men the construct that most influences the latent variable physiological are the “Palpitations or tachycardia”. The construct that most influences the latent variable cognitive is the “a feeling of instability”. In the women, the construct that most influences the latent variable physiological is the “dizziness or vertigo”. The construct that most influences the latent variable cognitive is “be afraid”.
Highlights
Anxiety is a body's response to situations limits, which is characterized by a sensation of mild distress or fear, and the emergence of rapid heart rate and breathing, sweating or feeling of looseness
This research first presents a brief contextualization of the structural equation models (SEM), the methodology, results obtained from the models and their interpretation
Any Kaiser - Meyer - Olkin (KMO) is below 0.5, which is why it can be said that factor analysis is valid
Summary
Anxiety is a body's response to situations limits, which is characterized by a sensation of mild distress or fear, and the emergence of rapid heart rate and breathing, sweating or feeling of looseness. The objective of this research was to develop two structural equation models (SEM) to evaluate the variables (physiological and cognitive), that most influenced the anxiety in mens and womens offenders of the law. This research first presents a brief contextualization of the structural equation models (SEM), the methodology, results obtained from the models and their interpretation. This research shows that show that there is a physiological and cognitive difference between men and women when they have anxiety, this is the added value that this research brings to the existing academic literature
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