Provjera Endlerovih skala i modela anksioznosti

Abstract

Endler’s original multidimensional scales of anxiety (EMAS) represent measurements of multidimensional trait anxiety and the perception of the situation on the basis of self-description. The scales were developed in accordance with the interactive model of anxiety which presupposes that multidimensional trait anxiety determines individual difference in relation to the intensity of the condition of anxiety in specific types of threatening situations. The situational dimensions of trait anxiety, estimated with the EMAS-T part of Endler’s scales, arc the following: the situation of social evaluation, the situation of physical danger, ambiguous situations and everyday situations. State anxiety, measured by the EMAS-S part of the scale, encompasses the autonomous-emotional dimension (A-E) and the dimension of cognitive worry (C-W). The scales were translated into Croatian and given to a group of 128 candidates before and after they took the entrance exam of the Department of English at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zadar (Summer, 1993). The results showed a satisfactory factorial structure and a high internal reliability of the scales both in the measurement of trait and state anxiety. A test of differential hypothesis of the interactive model of anxiety which perceives state anxiety as a function of the interaction between the specific dimension of trait anxiety and congruent threatening situation, showed an expected, significant connection between state anxiety and the dimension of social evaluation which was a congruent dimension of trait anxiety in this experimental situation. Other dimension of trait anxiety were not significantly connected with the state anxiety. What cannot be accommodated with Endler’s model are the significant correlations obtained between different (according to the model supposedly independent) dimension of trait anxiety.