Estructura factorial del inventario de trastornos de ansiedad generalizada en universitarios Mexicanos

Abstract

The present study analyzes the possibility of duplicating the psychometric results for the Generalized Anxiety Disorder Inventory. The total sample comprised 1307 participants; all of them students of the degree of Physical Education and Human Motricity offered at the Autonomous University of Chihuahua, with a mean age of 20.46 years. Psychometric analysis showed that a Three -factorial structure was viable and adequate. The factorial structure of the questionnaire was analyzed with confirmatory factor analysis. The structure of the three factors (cognitive, sleep disorders and somatic symptoms), attending to substantive and statistic criteria, showed adequate indicators of adjustment of reliability and validity. In addition, factor analysis conducted with subsamples indicated the presence of strong evidence of factor structure stability. Future research should replicate these findings in larger samples.