TY - JOUR
KW - Anxiety
KW - Appraisal
KW - Coping
KW - Inventory
AU - Antonio Cano-Vindel
AU - Juan José Miguel-Tobal
AB - Data of appraisal, coping, and anxiety, from four different studies, all related to the situation of "If I have to speak in public" are presented. Appraisal and coping data were obtained by means of the “Inventario de Valoración y Afrontamiento”, I.V.A. (Appraisal and Coping Inventory, A.C.I.). This inventory has been designed following the Lazarus Model and assess three types of appraisal (threatening, challenge, and irrelevant) and six types of coping (cognitive and behavioral-motor directed to modify the situation, cognitive and behavioral-motor directed to reduce the emotion, passive, and avoidance). The self-report anxiety level in the situation of "to speak in public" shows high correlation with appraisal that subjects make of this situation as threatening situation; although, the correlation is null with appraisal as challenge and it is negative with appraisal of the situation as irrelevant. The appraisal of the situation "To speak in public" as threatening is closed positive related to the level of anxiety experienced in such situation, and with the avoidance coping; although it negatively correlates with the active coping skills (especially, direct toward to modify the situation). We conclude that it is necessary to assess different types of coping because not all correlate with the anxiety level in the same way. It seems to be higher for the strategies direct toward the confrontation of the situation than those direct toward to reduce emotion. And it also seems to be higher if they are cognitive type strategies than if they are action strategies (behavioral- motor).
IS - 2-3
M3 - Journal article
N2 - Data of appraisal, coping, and anxiety, from four different studies, all related to the situation of "If I have to speak in public" are presented. Appraisal and coping data were obtained by means of the “Inventario de Valoración y Afrontamiento”, I.V.A. (Appraisal and Coping Inventory, A.C.I.). This inventory has been designed following the Lazarus Model and assess three types of appraisal (threatening, challenge, and irrelevant) and six types of coping (cognitive and behavioral-motor directed to modify the situation, cognitive and behavioral-motor directed to reduce the emotion, passive, and avoidance). The self-report anxiety level in the situation of "to speak in public" shows high correlation with appraisal that subjects make of this situation as threatening situation; although, the correlation is null with appraisal as challenge and it is negative with appraisal of the situation as irrelevant. The appraisal of the situation "To speak in public" as threatening is closed positive related to the level of anxiety experienced in such situation, and with the avoidance coping; although it negatively correlates with the active coping skills (especially, direct toward to modify the situation). We conclude that it is necessary to assess different types of coping because not all correlate with the anxiety level in the same way. It seems to be higher for the strategies direct toward the confrontation of the situation than those direct toward to reduce emotion. And it also seems to be higher if they are cognitive type strategies than if they are action strategies (behavioral- motor).
PB - Sociedad Española para el Estudio de la Ansiedad y el Estrés
PY - 1999
SN - 2174-0437/1134-7937
SP - 129
EP - 143
T2 - Ansiedad y estrés
TI - Appraisal, Coping and Anxiety
VL - 5
ER -