A regression analysis of the interactional approach to anxiety.

Abstract
The analysis of variance approach to analyzing interactional patterns of anxiety has received several criticisms. Few researchers have adopted process-oriented regression paradigms as a research alternative. Subjects completed rating tasks that assessed their perceptions of different types of situations, as well as their predictions of stress in those situations. In keeping with the interactional model of stress and anxiety, it was predicted that ratings of situations would be best predicted by trait anxiety scores that correspond to the situation being rated. When subjects rated 2 situations involving physical danger, the interactional predictions were upheld. For ratings of personally threatening types of situations, however, the results were less clear. The issue of the effects of situational type and specificity on the obtained results were discussed. Implications for the theoretical and empirical accuracy of the interactional model were addressed.

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