Trait anxiety and coping style as predictors of pre‐operative anxiety
- 1 February 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in British Journal of Clinical Psychology
- Vol. 28 (1) , 89-90
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2044-8260.1989.tb00817.x
Abstract
A situationally specific measure of trait anxiety based on the Endler model was a better predictor of pre‐operative state anxiety than the STAI trait anxiety scale in 54 patients undergoing colonoscopy. Lower self‐reported pre‐operative anxiety was found for (a) repressors, who report low trait anxiety and high defensiveness on the Marlowe‐Crown scale, than for (b) truly low anxious patients, who report low trait anxiety and low defensiveness.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
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