Trait Anxiety and Response to Potential Flood Disaster

1 April 1984

journal article
research article
Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports

Vol. 54 (2) , 507-512
https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1984.54.2.507

Abstract

81 subjects participated in a study examining the relationship between trait-anxiety, as measured by the trait subscale of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, and perceptions of or responses to potential floodhazard, as evaluated by an objective questionnaire. In assessing these relationships the interactive effects of a number of relevant variables were investigated. Correlations suggested that trait-anxiety was negatively related to expectation of flooding and to acknowledged anxiety. Moreover, trait-anxiety acted as a suppressor variable in the estimation of future damages.

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