The Nature of Trait Anxiety

Author:

Calvo Manuel G.1,Cano-Vindel Antonio2

Affiliation:

1. University of La Laguna, Spain

2. Complutense University of Madrid, Spain

Abstract

This paper examines the nature of trait anxiety using self-report and objective measures of biological, behavioral, and cognitive characteristics as predictors in multiple regression analyses. Trait anxiety was associated with self-reported psychological maladjustment and psychosomatic disorders, but not with actual physical capacity and skills, cardiovascular fitness, or biochemical parameters. Under social-evaluative stress, trait anxiety was associated with self-reported cognitive and somatic state anxiety, but only slightly with actual behavioral anxiety (only gaze avoidance) and physiological arousal (only heart rate recovery). There was high stability in relationships over a 3-month period. These results favor a cognitive, rather than a biological, conceptualization of trait anxiety. It is suggested that a cognitive bias to focus on internal threat-related stimuli is a vulnerability factor in trait anxiety that predisposes to anxiety disorders.

Publisher

Hogrefe Publishing Group

Subject

General Psychology,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)

Reference61 articles.

1. Appraisal, Coping, Task Performance, and Cardiovascular Responses During the Evaluated Speaking Task

2. Beck, A.T. (1978). Depression inventory . Philadelphia: Center for Cognitive Therapy

3. Psychophysiological assessment of anxious emotional states in children.

4. Physiological, cognitive and behavioral aspects of social anxiety

5. Bernstein, D.A. Borkovec, T.D. Coles, M.G.H. (1986). Assessment of anxiety. In A.R. Ciminero, K.S. Calhoun, & H.E. Adams (Eds.), Handbook of behavioral assessment, (pp. 353-403). New York: Wiley

Cited by 23 articles. 订阅此论文施引文献 订阅此论文施引文献,注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献,订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献

同舟云学术

1.学者识别学者识别

2.学术分析学术分析

3.人才评估人才评估

"同舟云学术"是以全球学者为主线,采集、加工和组织学术论文而形成的新型学术文献查询和分析系统,可以对全球学者进行文献检索和人才价值评估。用户可以通过关注某些学科领域的顶尖人物而持续追踪该领域的学科进展和研究前沿。经过近期的数据扩容,当前同舟云学术共收录了国内外主流学术期刊6万余种,收集的期刊论文及会议论文总量共计约1.5亿篇,并以每天添加12000余篇中外论文的速度递增。我们也可以为用户提供个性化、定制化的学者数据。欢迎来电咨询!咨询电话:010-8811{复制后删除}0370

www.globalauthorid.com

TOP

Copyright © 2019-2024 北京同舟云网络信息技术有限公司
京公网安备11010802033243号  京ICP备18003416号-3