Anxiety Response to Psychological Feedback among Psychiatric Inpatients
- 1 April 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 50 (2) , 547-551
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1982.50.2.547
Abstract
This study investigated determinants of state-anxiety responses to an ego-threatening event for 79 psychiatric inpatients. Specifically, state-anxiety levels were assessed in high and low trait-anxious internal and external patients immediately prior to the presentation of individualized psychological test feedback. Analysis of variance demonstrated that high trait-anxious patients reported higher levels of state anxiety than low trait-anxious patients. Further, external patients reported significantly higher levels of state anxiety than internal patients. Multiple regression indicated that locus of control and trait anxiety each uniquely contributed to the distribution of state-anxiety scores. Findings were discussed in terms of established correlates of locus of control orientation and in relation to social learning theory and the state-trait anxiety distinction.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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