The relationship between life event measures and anxiety and its cognitive correlates

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Abstract

The following paper reports an investigation of the relationship between various life event measures and some important measures of anxiety and its cognitive correlates. The results suggest that (i) measures of both trait anxiety and worrying are significantly related to measures of daily hassles, but are unrelated to other life event measures such as negative life events or world events, and (ii) both the tendency to interpret events as threatening and the tendency to seek out threat-relevant information (‘monitoring’) were significantly related to measures of daily hassles but unrelated to other life event measures. These results suggest that the relationship between daily hassles and trait anxiety extends to some of the important cognitive phenomena associated with anxiety, and they provide a means of conceptualizing the relationship between daily hassles and trait anxiety as an interactive one.

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