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Stability of State and Trait Anxiety

Psychological Reports, 1972
The stability of state and trait anxiety in a normal college population was assessed on four separate occasions over a 10-mo. period. The results indicate the transitory nature of state anxiety while simultaneously emphasizing the stability of trait anxiety.
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The Nature of Trait Anxiety

European Psychologist, 1997
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 ...
Manuel G. Calvo, Antonio Cano-Vindel
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Personality traits and computer anxiety as predictors of Y2K anxiety

Computers in Human Behavior, 2002
In an investigation of predictors of Y2K anxiety, 127 adults completed a questionnaire that assessed computer anxiety as well as several personality traits. It was hypothesized that Y2K anxiety would be associated with higher levels of trait anxiety, desire for control, intolerance of ambiguity, and computer anxiety. Religiosity, computer use, age, and
Susan B. Goldstein, Erin A. Dudley, Christina M. Erickson, Noella L. Richer   +3 more
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Death Anxiety, State and Trait Anxiety in Kuwaitian Samples

Psychological Reports, 1988
200 male and 277 female undergraduates at the University of Kuwait completed the Templer's Death Anxiety Scale and Spielberger, et al.'s State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for which retest reliabilities were adequate. Women had higher mean scores than men on death and trait anxiety but they were similar in state anxiety.
A M, Abdel-Khalek, M M, Omar
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The trait anxiety^perception score: A composite predictor for state anxiety.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1990
This article describes the development and initial evaluation of the A-Trait-Perception (ATP) score, a composite predictor for state anxiety. The ATP score is constructed from trait anxiety and situation perception data derived from the Endler Multidimensional Anxiety Scales (EMAS; Endler, Edwards, & Vitelli, 1989).
P R, King, N S, Endler
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Relationships between Spielberger trait anxiety and Lykken social and physical trait anxiety

Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1976
To determine the relationship between Spielberger's measure of trait anxiety and social-interpersonal vs. physical danger trait anxiety, Ss were administered and trait scale of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) and Lykken's Activity Preference Questionnaire (APQ).
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Trait Anxiety and Cognition

1987
This chapter should be read in conjunction with the following chapter by Mathews and Eysenck. The emphasis differs in the two chapters, in that this chapter is concerned with trait anxiety in normals, whereas the chapter by Mathews and Eysenck deals with clinical anxiety. Despite this difference, there is much overlap between the two chapters.
Michael W. Eysenck, Andrew Mathews
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Influence of Trait Anxiety on Perception of Humor

Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1983
Previous research and theory suggest that a person's anxiety level plays a functional role in determining his responsiveness to and appreciation of humor. Based upon the theoretical view that humor serves to dissipate anxiety, it was proposed that highly anxious individuals would respond more favourably to a therapist's use of humor than low trait ...
A M, Blank, M, Tweedale, M, Cappelli, D, Ryback   +3 more
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Hardiness and the competitive trait anxiety response

Anxiety, Stress & Coping, 2003
This study examined the effects of hardiness, its subcomponents and skill level upon the intensity and direction dimensions of competitive trait anxiety and self‐confidence intensity. Participants (n = 199) completed the Dispositional Resilience Scale, a modified version of the Sport Anxiety Scale and the self‐confidence scale extracted from a modified
Sheldon Hanton, Lynne Evans, Richard Neil   +2 more
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State-Trait Anxiety and Motocross Performance

Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1986
The prediction from state-trait theory that subjects low in anxiety will perform better than highly anxious subjects on a more difficult task was tested on a motocross competition. We analyzed the relationships among the entire rank order of finish and state and trait anxiety measured by State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for 32 motocross riders (males ...
C A, DeMojà, G, DeMojà
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