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Psychometric Meta‐Analysis of the English Version of the Beck Anxiety Inventory
Author(s) -
Bardhoshi Gerta,
Duncan Kelly,
Erford Bradley T.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of counseling and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.805
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1556-6676
pISSN - 0748-9633
DOI - 10.1002/jcad.12090
Subject(s) - beck anxiety inventory , beck depression inventory , psychology , anxiety , clinical psychology , cutoff , reliability (semiconductor) , internal consistency , psychometrics , psychiatry , power (physics) , physics , quantum mechanics
This meta‐analysis reviewed 192 scholarly works from 1993 to 2013 using the Beck Anxiety Inventory (Beck & Steer, [Beck, A. T., 1993]). Aggregated internal consistency (coefficient alpha) was .91 ( k = 117), and test–retest reliability was .65 ( k = 18). Convergent comparisons were robust across 33 different anxiety instruments and the Beck Depression Inventory–II (Beck, Steer, & Brown, [Beck, A. T., 1996]). Structural validity primarily supported the original 2‐factor solution proposed by Beck and Steer ([Beck, A. T., 1993]), and diagnostic accuracy varied according to the sample size and criterion cutoff score.