Charles Speilberger

Charles Spielberger, Ph.D. is a clinical/community psychologist well-known for his development of the State/Trait Anxiety Inventory.

Spielberger is a former president of the American Psychological Association. He currently belongs to a think tank at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida and was formerly Chairman of the Psychology Department there.

In 1972, as in coming president of the Southeastern Psychological Association (SEPA) he appointed the first SEPA Task Force on the Status of Women, chaired by Ellen Kimmel. [cite web
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tate Trait Anxiety Inventory

Spielberger made the conceptual distinct between chronic or trait anxiety (a general propensity to be anxious) and temporary or state anxiety (a temporary state varying in intensity). To measure these concepts, he developed the State Trait Anxiety Inventory.

Additional work on anxiety

His work on anxiety has been famously cited by Rollo May. [ "The Meaning of Anxiety", Rollo May, 1977, W.W. Norton, p. xvii, xx, 11, 53, 54, 80, 111, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 403, 405, 406, 407, 408, 411, 412, 424 ] He also co-wrote the book [http://books.google.com/books?id=-MEmKOB-kTQC Anxiety in Sports: An International Perspective] [ Dieter Hackfort, Charles D. Spielberger, Published by Taylor & Francis, 1990 ISBN 1-5603-2143-1, ISBN 9781560321439, 275 pages ]

tate Trait Anger Scale

Carrying this concept further, Spielberger distinguished between state and trait anger. State anger is definded as a temporary emotional state while trait anger is a general tendency to react angrily to perceive situations. (Spielberger et al., 1983). [cite web
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title=Correctional Service of Canada - Literature Review on Women's Anger and Other Emotions - State Trait Anger Scale|publisher=www.csc-scc.gc.ca|accessdate=2008-03-04|last=|first=] Speilberger became a well known authority on anger and its manifestations. [cite web|url=http://www.thenews.com.pk/editorial_detail.asp?id=65377|title=The News - International - Tuesday, March 04, 2008
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Early career

One of his first vocations was as an electronics technician in the U.S. Army (1945-1946). His post secondary education includes a B.S. in chemistry from the GA. Inst. of Technology (1949) and a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Iowa.

External links

[http://psychology.usf.edu/faculty/data/cspielberger_cv.pdf His CV]

Footnotes

External links

* [http://www.cps.nova.edu/~cpphelp/STAI.html State-Trait Anxiety Inventory]