Feeling of anxiety

Anxiety disorders have been reported to decrease with age, while anxiety feelings have been reported to be as common as in younger age groups. An anxiety state is a cluster of symptoms based on fear, the source of which is not recognized by the patient. The anxiety may be sustained, but more often is episodic from a few minutes to hours or days. The chief symptoms are those of anxiety and its physical concomitants in the absence of other illness and independent of specific situations; they include breathing and swallowing difficulties, palpitations, dizziness, irritability, and faintness.Anxiety is a particularly interesting phenomenon to study, since anxiety occurs in both state and trait form. State-anxiety (Spielberger, Gorsuch, Lushene, Vagg, & Jacobs, 1983) is defined as a temporary state influenced by the current situation where the respondent notes how he/she feels right now at this moment, whereas trait anxiety is defined as a general propensity to be anxious where the respondent notes how he/she feels generally.

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