Anxiety and Behavior

Content: CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS VOLUME , Page ii Front Matter , Page iii Copyright , Page iv List of Contributors , Pages v-vi Preface , Pages vii-ix , CHARLES D. SPIELBERGER CHAPTER 1 - Theory and Research on Anxiety , Pages 3-20 , Charles D. Spielberger CHAPTER 2 - Anxiety and Motivation: Theory and Crucial Experiments , Pages 23-62 , Raymond B. Cattell CHAPTER 3 - The Measurement of Anxiety in Children: Some Questions and Problems , Pages 63-79 , Seymour B. Sarason CHAPTER 4 - Affect and Behavior: Anxiety as a Negative Affect , Pages 81-125 , Carroll E. Izard, Silvan S. Tomkins CHAPTER 5 - The Psychosomatic Aspects of Anxiety , Pages 129-142 , Roy R. Grinker Sr. CHAPTER 6 - The Basis of Psychopathology: Malconditioning or Misbehavior? , Pages 143-156 , O. Hobart Mowrer CHAPTER 7 - Studies of Anxiety: Some Clinical Origins of the Activation Concept , Pages 157-177 , Robert B. Malmo CHAPTER 8 - The Conditioning and Deconditioning of Neurotic Anxiety , Pages 179-190 , Joseph Wolpe CHAPTER 9 - The Interaction of Cognitive and Physiological Determinants of Emotional State, , Pages 193-224 , Stanley Schachter CHAPTER 10 - The Study of Psychological Stress: A Summary of Theoretical Formulations and Experimental Findings , Pages 225-262 , Richard S. Lazarus, Edward M. Opton Jr. CHAPTER 1 1 - Anxiety and the Interruption of Behavior , Pages 263-288 , George Mandler, David L. Watson CHAPTER 12 - The Motivational Components of Manifest Anxiety: Drive and Drive Stimuli , Pages 291-326 , Janet Taylor Spence, Kenneth W. Spence CHAPTER 13 - Cognitive Responses to Internally Cued Anxiety , Pages 327-360 , Charles W. Eriksen CHAPTER 14 - The Effects of Anxiety on Complex Learning and Academic Achievement , Pages 361-398 , Charles D. Spielberger AUTHOR INDEX , Pages 399-405 SUBJECT INDEX , Pages 406-414 Anxiety and Behavior focuses on the analysis of factors and conditions that contribute to anxiety, including stress, emotional disturbance, and psychosomatic disorders. The selection first offers information on theories and research on anxiety and the nature and measurement of anxiety. Topics include objective anxiety (fear) and neurotic anxiety, trends in anxiety research, anxiety and personality dynamics, and laws of anxiety change in pathological and other fields. The text then elaborates on questions and problems on the measurement of anxiety in children, including reservations about anxiety scales, concept of defense, and suggestions on the interpretation of anxiety scales. The publication reviews the psychosomatic aspects of anxiety, basis of psychopathology, and clinical origins of the activation concept. Discussions focus on anxiety and stress, observations of anxiety in men under stress, etiology of psychosomatic disorders, emotional disturbance, and activation. The text also considers conditioning and deconditioning of neurotic anxiety and interaction of cognitive and physiological determinants of emotional state. The selection is a dependable reference for readers interested in the study of anxiety