ABSTRACT
This chapter reports the findings of several studies in which the Norwegian State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) was used, and reviews the available Norwegian literature on the STAI and described the development of a Norwegian form of the revised STAI. The most noteworthy deviation of the present study from previous research seems to be that the factor structure of the Norwegian STAI differs somewhat from other adaptations. The limitations in the available measures stimulated Kjell Haseth to develop a Norwegian adaptation of the STAI in order to augment clinical observations and self-ratings of anxiety in phobic patients. A research group at the University of Bergen used the STAI-N in an extensive series of job stress and adjustment studies. The relation between hypnotizability, imaginative involvement, and anxiety responses was examined by O. Vassend and G. Nysveen, who reported a small positive correlation between S-Anxiety and self-ratings of global hypnotic depth.
