ABSTRACT
The utility of research approach was demonstrated in a study that examined the course of anxiety, depression, and assertion before, during, and after a circumscribed war trauma. The singular use of projective tests, polygraphs, behavioral avoidance tests, and anxiety inventories can only serve to provide a partial description of the disorder. When a single-case analysis was subsequently conducted, it became evident that some of the respondents developed and maintained symptomatology that was suggestive of posttraumatic stress disorder following the trauma. The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory is made up of a State Anxiety Scale that measures the amount of anxiety that the subject is experiencing at the time of testing and a Trait Anxiety Scale that measures individual differences in anxiety proneness. An analysis of the psychometric properties of these measures for Lebanese students has been presented elsewhere.
