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Dental anxiety and trait anxiety: an investigation of their relationship

British Dental Journal, 2009
Anxiety related to dental treatment is a fairly common phenomenon. Some studies have shown that there is an association between dental anxiety and general fears and anxiety, neuroticism and general psychological distress.This study was designed to examine the relationship between dental anxiety and trait anxiety.The sample consisted of 1,030 ...
D, Fuentes, C, Gorenstein, L W, Hu
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Anxiety: States, traits—situations?

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1978
The present study investigated the utility of situational assessments of trait anxiety in predicting state anxiety reactions. Ninety-six male subjects preselected at either high or low on three measures of trait anxiety—S-R Inventory of General Trait Anxiousness (S-R GTA) Physical Danger; S-R GTA Evaluation; State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI A-Trait)
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The multidimensionality of state and trait anxiety

Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 1976
Abstract.— The two major problems investigated were (a) the multidimensionality of trait (A‐Trait) and state (A‐State) anxiety, and (b) the relationship between A‐Trait and A‐State under neutral conditions, using two measures of A‐Trait (SR‐GTA and STAI‐T) and two measures of A‐State (BRQ and STAI‐S).
N S, Endler, D, Magnusson, B, Ekehammar, M, Okada   +3 more
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Anxiety sensitivity, trait anxiety, and the anxiety disorders

Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 1991
Abstract The recent debates and commentaries about the construct validity of the Anxiety Sensitivity Index (ASI) suggest several issues that remain to be resolved. First, the factor structure of the ASI remains to be clarified. Second, the distinction between this instrument and measures of trait anxiety has yet to be elucidated.
Steven Taylor, William J. Koch, David J. Crockett   +2 more
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Death anxiety: “State” or “trait”?

Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1979
Investigated relative effects of hypnosis, alpha biofeedback, prestige suggestion, and silence in attenuating experimentally induced increases in death anxiety. Forty female undergraduate Ss at Louisiana State University were tested on four measures of death anxiety: "Emotional" associations to "death" words, association response latencies to "death ...
C G, Pettigrew, J G, Dawson
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Trait Anxiety and the Sense of Coherence

Psychological Reports, 1987
Two different theoretical approaches to the explanation of individual differences in appraisal of environmental demands are expressed by the trait-anxiety (A-trait) scale of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (4) and by Antonovsky's (2) measure of the sense of coherence.
J, Bernstein, S, Carmel
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The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, Trait Version: Does It Really Measure Anxiety?

Journal of Personality Assessment, 2010
To clarify what is actually measured by the trait version of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI; Spielberger, Gorsuch, & Lushene, 1970), we conducted a confirmatory factor analysis of various models and evaluated convergent and discriminant validity. The best fit was obtained with both a bifactor model, comprising 2 specific factors plus a general
Arturo, Bados, Juana, Gómez-Benito, Gemma, Balaguer   +2 more
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Trait anxiety, trait depression, worry, and memory

Behaviour Research and Therapy, 2004
A study is reported which investigated the proposal that high trait anxiety is associated with a memory bias for worry themes. Forty-five participants were categorised as being high or low trait anxious on the basis of scores on the (Spielberger et al., 1983) (Manual for the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (Form Y) (1983)).
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TRAIT ANXIETY AND FEARFULNESS

Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal, 1973
To evaluate the relationship between trait anxiety (TA) and fearfulness, 36 female nursing students were given the Wolpe-Lang Fear Survey Schedule (FSSIII) and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAT). High TA subjects selected from this sample were found to be more fearful than low TA subjects, and a correlation of 0.52 was obtained between ...
Dean G. Kilpatrick, Philip G. Mcleod
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Paranormal Belief and Trait Anxiety

Psychological Reports, 1982
73 college students completed the Paranormal Belief Scale and the Trait Anxiety Scale. Contrary to hypotheses, neither full Paranormal Scale Scores nor any of seven paranormal subscale scores showed significant correlations with Trait Anxiety Scale scores.
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