Publisher's Synopsis
The idea underlying this volume is that of integrating a number of conceptual approaches to anxiety, most of which bear directly on the self-focus notion, and all of which touch the notion at least indirectly. These chapters stem from diverse sources, including psychologists in the areas of social, clinical and personality psychology. Their common ground is the overriding idea that anxiety, as a state of distress, has a strong determinant or accompaniment in self-directed attention. Thus, the book poses a theoretical challenge to more traditional anxiety research and theory, where psychometric issues, clinical case studies and classical personality constructs have dominated.;These chapters have appeared as journal articles in the first three volumes of "Anxiety Research, an International Journal". This volume is not only designed for researchers in the fields of anxiety and self-theory, but is also pertinent to clinical, personality, social and educational psychologists.
