School of Psychology, University of Sydney (A18), Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia.
Anxiety Stress Coping. 2011 Jan;24(1):91-105. doi: 10.1080/10615801003653430.
Avoidance theories propose that worrying results in a reduction of the physiological arousal symptoms of anxiety. However, relatively little is known about the emotional symptoms that remain associated with worrying. This study explored whether the emotional states of anxiety, depression, or stress are specifically associated with excessive and uncontrollable worry. A group of 126 university students were selected to represent a wide range on the dimension of worry proneness. They completed a worry questionnaire, monitored the frequency and uncontrollability of their worry episodes for 1 week, and completed the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS) to indicate their level of negative affect during the monitoring period. Hierarchical regression analyses showed that all measures of worrying had a unique positive association with stress, over and above their associations with anxiety and depression. Item-level analyses showed that stress symptoms were uniformly strongly associated with worrying, while anxiety symptoms had the weakest associations. These results increase our knowledge regarding the phenomenology of worrying and underline the potential theoretical significance of the emotional state assessed by the DASS Stress scale. This scale fills the current need for a psychometrically sound instrument to assess the emotional experience associated with worrying.
回避理论认为，担忧会导致焦虑的生理唤醒症状减轻。然而，人们对与担忧相关的情绪症状知之甚少。本研究探讨了焦虑、抑郁或压力等情绪状态是否与过度和无法控制的担忧有特定关联。选择了 126 名大学生作为研究对象，他们在担忧倾向维度上的得分跨度较大。他们完成了一份担忧问卷，在一周内监测自己的担忧频率和不可控性，并完成了抑郁焦虑压力量表（DASS），以表明在监测期间的负面情绪水平。层次回归分析表明，所有担忧程度的测量都与压力呈正相关，且与焦虑和抑郁的相关性相比更为显著。项目水平分析表明，压力症状与担忧有很强的一致性关联，而焦虑症状的关联最弱。这些结果增加了我们对担忧现象学的认识，并强调了 DASS 压力量表评估的情绪状态在理论上的潜在意义。该量表填补了当前评估与担忧相关的情绪体验的心理测量学工具的需求。
