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To examine the theoretical foundations and practical application of psychological tests designed to measure anxiety during stress, specifically assessing the construct overlap between different standardized inventories.

November 1, 1973The British Journal of Psychiatry

Practical Aspects of the Use of Some Psychological Tests of Anxiety in a Situation of Stress

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To examine the theoretical foundations and practical application of psychological tests designed to measure anxiety during stress, specifically assessing the construct overlap between different standardized inventories.
Analyzed the theoretical framework and psychometric overlap of the Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale (TMAS) derived from the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory.
Evaluated the association between TMAS scores and the dimensional personality constructs of neuroticism and extraversion-introversion from the Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI).
The Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale repeatedly correlates highly significantly with the neuroticism score of the Eysenck Personality Inventory.
Theoretical analysis suggests the shared variance reflects either a common general personality dimension of emotional instability or a shared specific predisposition toward anxiety.

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Psychometric evaluation reveals substantial correlation between anxiety scales and general neuroticism measures in stressful contexts, suggesting these tools capture shared emotional instability.

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P. K. Bridges (1973) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a1ef60c9bbe36aec96b582c https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.123.5.587

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Psychometric evaluation reveals substantial correlation between anxiety scales and general neuroticism measures in stressful contexts, suggesting these tools capture shared emotional instability.

Practical Aspects of the Use of Some Psychological Tests of Anxiety in a Situation of Stress

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Practical Aspects of the Use of Some Psychological Tests of Anxiety in a Situation of Stress

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