Sökning: "trait anxiety"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 70 avhandlingar innehållade orden trait anxiety.
1. Trait anxiety as a determinant of psychological test results
Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with the problem of interpreting test scores. The intention has been to explore and elucidate the effects of trait anxiety on test scores that have been obtained in applied research settings. LÄS MER
2. Diagnostic Aspects of Fear of Childbirth
Sammanfattning : The first study presents the theoretical background of the Wijma Delivery Expectancy/Experience Questionnaire (W-DEQ) and an examination of this new instrument's construct validity and reliability. The W-DEQ has good reliability and measures the construct "fear of childbirth", when compared with other questionnaires. LÄS MER
3. Perspectives of anxiety in stressful environments : Prospective studies in real-life settings
Sammanfattning : The present thesis deals with perspectives of anxiety experienced in stressful environments. As such two major issues are addressed. The first issue is whether increased trait anxiety during work in a high-stress environment is related to impaired performance on executive control tasks. LÄS MER
4. Some effects of maternal anxiety on the fetus and on pregnancy outcome
Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis was to study maternal emotional impact on the fetus and on pregnancy outcome. The thesis comprises five papers, which emanate from a prospective study regarding life situation, the experience of pregnancy, anxiety (Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety),and life events in nulliparous women, conducted in Malmö during 1988-1989. LÄS MER
5. Does the way in which we perceive the world make us susceptible to anxiety?
Sammanfattning : One major focus of anxiety research in recent years has been the identification of cognitive factors that promote increased vulnerability to anxiety. Cognitive formulations propose that anxiety is characterised by an increased tendency to attend to negatively valenced emotional information, and that this bias may play a causal role in the development and maintenance of clinical anxiety. LÄS MER