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Temporal stability of the implicit association test-anxiety
Boris Egloff1, Andreas Schwerdtfeger, Stefan C Schmukle
1Department of Psychology, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany. egloff@mail.uni-mainz.de
Journal of Personality Assessment
|January 11, 2005
Summary
The Implicit Association Test-Anxiety (IAT-Anxiety) shows moderate temporal stability over 1 week, 1 month, and 1 year. This suggests the IAT-Anxiety is a reliable measure for assessing personality dispositions related to anxiety.
Area of Science:
- Psychological assessment
- Personality psychology
- Cognitive science
Background:
- The Implicit Association Test-Anxiety (IAT-Anxiety) indirectly measures anxiety by assessing associations between self/other and anxiety/calmness words.
- Assessing the temporal stability of psychological measures is crucial for their validity and application.
Purpose of the Study:
- To evaluate the temporal stability of the IAT-Anxiety across different time intervals.
- To determine the reliability of the IAT-Anxiety as a measure of anxiety-related personality dispositions.
Main Methods:
- Three independent studies were conducted with varying time lags between test and retest (1 week, 1 month, 1 year).
- Participants completed the IAT-Anxiety on two separate occasions.
- Test-retest correlations were calculated to assess temporal stability.
Main Results:
- A test-retest correlation of .58 was found after a 1-week interval (Study 1, N=65).
- A stability coefficient of .62 was observed with a 1-month interval (Study 2, N=39).
- A correlation of .47 indicated long-term stability over a 1-year period (Study 3, N=36).
Conclusions:
- The IAT-Anxiety demonstrates moderate temporal stability across short and long durations.
- These findings support the reliability of the IAT-Anxiety for assessing personality dispositions.
- The results have implications for using the IAT in personality research and clinical assessment.