Effects of interview stress on measure of state and trait anxiety.

Abstract

Measures of state anxiety (A state) and trait anxiety (A trait) were obtained from 48 VA psychiatric in-patients before and after either a stressful or nonstressful (control) interview. Scores on 2 of 3 A-state measures were significantly increased by the stress interview; none of the A-state measures was influenced by the control interview, Neither of the 2 A-trait measures was affected by either type of interview. These results demonstrated the meaningfulness of a conceptual distinction between trait and state anxiety and the differential influence of stressful conditions on empirical measures of these concepts. 1 This paper is based upon a dissertation submitted to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Vanderbilt University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the doctoral degree. This investigation was supported in part by Grant HD-947 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (C. D, Spielberger, principal investigator) and Grant NIH-P07Fr0016-04 from the National Institutes of Health, The author expresses his deepest appreciation to Charles D. Spielberger, dissertation chairman, for his encouragement and guidance during all stages of the investigation.

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