The Relationship Between GI symptoms, State and Trait Anxiety, and Lifestyle Factors in Males and Females During the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 121 (9) ◽  
pp. A35
Author(s):  
A. Evenson ◽  
K. Johnson ◽  
B. Berens ◽  
J. Wachowiak ◽  
J. Knapek ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Trait Anxiety ◽  
Lifestyle Factors ◽  
Gi Symptoms ◽  
State And Trait Anxiety ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals Gastrointestinal Distress, State and Trait Anxiety, and Dietary Intake Among College Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_2) ◽  
pp. 218-218
Author(s):  
Alexa Evenson ◽  
Katherine Johnson ◽  
Catherine Bohn-Gettler ◽  
Trevor Keyler
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Dietary Intake ◽  
Trait Anxiety ◽  
Gastrointestinal Symptoms ◽  
Stepwise Multiple Regression ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Somatic Anxiety ◽  
Gi Symptoms ◽  
State And Trait Anxiety ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Objectives To determine the impact of State and Trait anxiety and dietary intake on college students' gastrointestinal symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods A total of 455 students, aged 18–23, from two residential colleges in the midwestern United States participated in the study during April 2021. An online questionnaire that included the National Cancer Institute Dietary Screener, State-Trait Inventory for Cognitive and Somatic Anxiety, and an adapted version of the Gastrointestinal Symptoms Questionnaire was used. Stepwise multiple regression analyses was used to analyze the data. Results The mean score for GI symptoms was 5.57 ± 5.25. Moderate to severe symptoms of abdominal bloating (31.8%), nausea (16.2%), passing gas (29.1%), abdominal rumbling (28.1%), abdominal cramping (20.4%), diarrhea (18.8%), and constipation (14.7%) were reported by our participants. High rates of State-somatic, State-cognitive, and Trait-somatic anxiety were present in our study population. These anxiety subscales and dietary intake predicted 26% and 3.8% of the GI symptoms variance, respectively. Conclusions State-anxiety and Trait-somatic anxiety are large factors in predicting GI symptoms compared to dietary intake. College students could seek anxiety-reducing techniques to ease GI symptoms. Funding Sources None

The Relationship Between Communication Attitude, Anxiety, and Depression in Stutterers and Nonstutterers

1992 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 789-798 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Miller ◽  
Ben C. Watson
Keyword(s):  
Trait Anxiety ◽  
Anxiety And Depression ◽  
General State ◽  
Severity Rating ◽  
Self Perceptions ◽  
Communication Situations ◽  
Negative Communication ◽  
State And Trait Anxiety ◽  
Anxiety Depression ◽  
The Relationship

People who stutter are frequently viewed as more anxious than nonstutterers and as being depressed. Further, a strong and pervasive stereotype is held by nonstutterers that people who stutter are guarded, nervous, and tense. This study examined self-perceptions of general state and trait anxiety, depression, and communication attitude in matched groups of stutterers and nonstutterers. Results refute the assertion that people who stutter are more anxious or depressed than those who do not. Anxiety and depression are not related to self-ratings of stuttering severity. Communication attitude is negative for this group of people who stutter and becomes increasingly negative as self-ratings of stuttering become more severe. People who stutter, grouped by severity rating, differed in the strength of the relation between measures of communication attitude, anxiety, and depression. Findings suggest that the anxiety of people who stutter is restricted to their attitude towards communication situations and that it is a rational response to negative communication experiences.

Relation of State and Trait Anxiety to Essential Hypertension

1983 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 355-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary D. Foster ◽  
Susan T. Bell
Keyword(s):  
Essential Hypertension ◽  
Trait Anxiety ◽  
Objective Measure ◽  
The State ◽  
Anxiety State ◽  
State Trait Anxiety Inventory ◽  
State And Trait Anxiety ◽  
The Relationship

This study used an objective measure of state and trait anxiety to clarify the relationship between level of anxiety and essential hypertension. The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory was administered to 30 hypertensives and their normotensive spouses. No significant differences were found between the hypertensives and normotensives on either measure of anxiety (state or trait). A significant correlation was noted, however, between the trait-anxiety scores of hypertensives and those of their spouses. The need to examine the role of anxiety in the development versus the maintenance of essential hypertension is discussed.

Comeditation: An Exploratory Study of Pulse and Respiration Rates and Anxiety

1992 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
pp. 895-904 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Fasko ◽  
Geri Hall ◽  
Michael R. Osborne ◽  
Richard W. Boerstler Hulen Kornfeld
Keyword(s):  
Trait Anxiety ◽  
State Anxiety ◽  
Tibetan Medicine ◽  
Focus Attention ◽  
State Trait Anxiety Inventory ◽  
Inventory Analysis ◽  
Respiration Rates ◽  
State And Trait Anxiety ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Seriously Ill

To achieve deep relaxation in seriously ill persons, Tibetan medicine has employed a breathing process, known as “comeditation,” which requires a caregiver to focus attention on the chest of the reclining patient while making a sound or number keyed to the patient's exhalation. This study investigated the relationship between state and trait anxiety and lowered respiratory rate, using the comeditation procedure. Ten subjects were assigned randomly to either a control or comeditation group. Anxiety was measured on the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory. Analysis indicated a decrease in State-Anxiety scores in the comeditation group, but no differences between groups in pulse and respiration rates or trait anxiety. Implications for theory and research are discussed.

scholarly journals The Relationship Between State and Trait Anxiety and Gastrointestinal Symptoms During COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_2) ◽  
pp. 219-219
Author(s):  
Alexa Evenson ◽  
Jillian Knapek
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Trait Anxiety ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Gastrointestinal Symptoms ◽  
Correlation Coefficients ◽  
Funding Sources ◽  
Gi Symptoms ◽  
Midwestern University ◽  
Total State ◽  
State And Trait Anxiety

Abstract Objectives To determine 1) the relationships between gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms and State and Trait anxiety in college students during the COVID-19 pandemic and 2) sex differences in GI symptoms and State and Trait anxiety. Methods College students (n = 459; aged 18–23) at a midwestern university completed an online survey in mid-April 2020, which included the State and Trait Inventory for Cognitive and Somatic Anxiety (STICSA) and an amended Gastrointestinal Symptoms Questionnaires. Spearman rho correlation coefficients and Mann-Whitney U tests were used to analyze the data. Results The overall sample reported a mean of 5.61(5.43) of GI symptoms. Moderate to severe symptoms of abdominal bloating (31.8%), nausea (16.2%), passing gas (29.1%), abdominal rumbling (28.1%), abdominal cramping (20.4%), diarrhea (18.8%), and constipation (14.7%) were reported in participants. Females had greater GI symptoms compared to males (Females: 6.16 ± 5.39; Males: 4.01 + 4.46; U = 15108.00; P < .001). Females also exhibited higher total State (females: 40.60 + 12.79; males: 35.24 + 11.69; U = 15348.5; P < .001) and Trait (Females: 31.26 + 9.99; Males: 28.52 + 7.59:  U = 16218.5; P < .001) anxiety scores compared to males. Higher GI symptoms were significantly related to higher State-Cognitive (rs = .476; P < .01); State-Somatic (rs = .525; P < .01); Trait-Cognitive (rs = .367; P < .01); and Trait-Somatic (rs = .500; P < .01) anxiety subscales scores. Conclusions GI symptoms and anxiety were prominent in our sample during the COVID-19 pandemic. Females exhibited higher GI symptoms and State and Trait anxiety compared to males. GI symptoms were positively correlated with State and Trait anxiety. It may be warranted to screen individuals, especially females, for anxiety when presenting with GI symptoms. Funding Sources None

Anxiety and Perceptual Articulation

1976 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 403-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Loo ◽  
Nelson R. Cauthen
Keyword(s):  
Trait Anxiety ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
High Anxiety ◽  
Embedded Figures Test ◽  
Adequate Control ◽  
Embedded Figures ◽  
State And Trait Anxiety ◽  
Manifest Anxiety ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Trait Groups

The study investigated Witkin's suggestion that low manifest anxiety is associated with relatively high perceptual articulation, whereas high anxiety is associated with relatively low perceptual articulation. Previous research typically has not provided adequate control for subjects' IQ; therefore, results may have been confounded by differences in subjects' ability. This study attempted to clarify the relationship between state and trait anxiety and perceptual articulation when IQ was controlled for 60 female subjects, who fell within a predetermined IQ range and were blocked into low, moderate and high A-Trait groups. Half of each group was assigned to either low or high ego-involving conditions. All subjects completed the Embedded-figures Test, Gestalt Completion and Concealed Words Tests. Contrary to Witkin, the study yielded no significant relationship between anxiety and perceptual articulation.

Correlation between anxiety and chronic motion sensitivity

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Ahmad A. Alharbi ◽  
Eric G. Johnson ◽  
Abdulaziz A. Albalwi ◽  
Oluwaseun I. Ambode ◽  
Tim K. Cordett ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Trait Anxiety ◽  
Postural Stability ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Adult Males ◽  
Motion Sensitivity ◽  
General Anxiety ◽  
State And Trait Anxiety ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Anxiety Levels

BACKGROUND: Chronic motion sensitivity (CMS) is a combination of autonomic symptoms provoked by exposure to motion. The correlation between anxiety and CMS is not yet well understood. OBJECTIVES: 1) To compare median anxiety levels between young adults with and without CMS. 2) To examine the effect of anxiety on postural stability with immersion virtual reality. 3) To compare anxiety levels between sexes. METHODS: Participants included 60 adults (20–40 years), with and without CMS. After determining their current and general anxiety levels, postural stability was measured. RESULTS: There were significant differences in median (minimum, maximum) state- and trait-anxiety scores between participants with and without CMS, but no significant differences in median state- and trait-anxiety scores between males and females with CMS. There was a significant inverse relationship between state- and trait-anxiety scores and postural stability (ρ= –0.28, p = 0.03, and ρ= –0.32, p = 0.01, respectively). The stepwise regression analysis showed the Motion Sickness Susceptibility Questionnaire-Short Form score to be the only variable contributing significantly to postural stability (R2  = 26.2%; t = –4.5, p <  0.001). CONCLUSIONS: Young adults with CMS are more anxious, although anxiety does not contribute to postural stability in this group. Anxiety levels do not appear to differ between young adult males and females with CMS.

State and Trait Anxiety as Mediators in the Relationship among Cognitive Restructuring and Study Skills Training with Academic Achievement

2019 ◽  
pp. 8-20
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Trait Anxiety ◽  
State Anxiety ◽  
Study Skills ◽  
Cognitive Restructuring ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
State And Trait Anxiety ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Significant Mediator

The aim of the study was to determine the role of state and trait anxiety as mediators in the relationship between cognitive restructuring and study skills training with academic achievement. Ninety-four high school students were randomly selected as a sample to receive either a CR or SST psycho-educational group therapy. The mediation analyses indicated that anxiety (state and trait anxiety post-test) could not be considered as significant mediators and this mediation was not a partial mediation. Furthermore, the results revealed that state anxiety follow-up could be considered as a significant mediator and this mediation was a partial mediation. However, trait anxiety follow-up could not be considered as a significant mediator and this mediation was not a partial mediation. However, the present study founded evidence of effects of state anxiety as a mediator on academic achievement. In conclusion, CR and SST were effective treatments for anxiety and academic achievement.

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