Recommendations for Future Research
Psychometric Research:
- Examine the hypothesis of unidimensionality and cross-situational factorial invariance of SAI across different phases of exercise, using a CFA model
Applied Research:
- Realize that alpha provides no evidence of unidimensionality
- Decide whether anxiety per se is, in fact, of genuine interest; if so, manipulate anxiety in some manner; if not, study global affect
- Use assessment tools that concentrate on the cognitive antecedents of anxiety (i.e., appraisal of interpersonal threat, worry) and do not rely on physiological or behavioral activation as markers of anxiety