@article{ref1,
title="Self-evaluation and self-perception: The role of attention in the experience of anxiety",
journal="Anxiety research",
year="1990",
author="Gibbons, Frederick X.",
volume="2",
number="3",
pages="153-163",
abstract="Abstract Self-awareness promotes the experience of anxiety in two ways. It does so directly, by enhancing awareness of the emotional state itself, and by initiating the self-evaluation process that is necessary for anxiety to occur. It also does so indirectly, by constraining some behaviors and inhibiting others. In particular, it increases accuracy of self-perception, and, in so doing, retards the process of self-delusion. This is important, because the latter process has been shown to have a salutary effect on mental health, acting as a buffer against dysphoric states such as depression and anxiety.<p />",
language="",
issn="0891-7779",
doi="10.1080/08917779008249333",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08917779008249333"
}