Trait Anxiety and Perception of a Potential Nuclear Power Plant Disaster
- 1 February 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 74 (1) , 291-295
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1994.74.1.291
Abstract
This study explored how trait anxiety interacts with various demographic variables in influencing how potential nuclear power disaster is assessed by a random sample of 150 adults (77 women, 73 men) who live near a nuclear power plant. Expectation of a future nuclear power plant disaster was positively related to high trait-anxiety elevations in women who were childless.Keywords
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