@article{ref1,
title="Perception of threatening consequences of anxiety-provoking situations",
journal="Anxiety research",
year="1991",
author="Stattin, Håkan and Magnusson, David and Oláh, Attila and Kassin, Hassan and Reddy, Nalmada   Yadagiri",
volume="4",
number="2",
pages="141-166",
abstract="Abstract Three studies are presented, addressing the issue of classifying and measuring situational anxiety in terms of threatening consequences. A classification system for categorizing free descriptions of anxiety-provoking situations is presented in Study 1. The underlying theoretical rationale for the scheme is a situation-outcome contingency model of anxiety appraisal which stresses the nature of the expected consequences in threat-provoking situations. The classification system covers the major types of physical-bodily, personal-interpersonal, and societal consequences that may be expected to emanate from confrontation with anxiety-provoking situations. The psychometric properties of the classification are examined. A cross-validation of the classification system, using another method for data collection as well as for data treatment, is reported in Study 2. Study 3 analyses the usefulness of the classification system for predicting subjects' self-reported anxiety for a variety of verbally described situations. The utilization of consequence analyses of situations for measuring anxiety appraisal is discussed.<p />",
language="",
issn="0891-7779",
doi="10.1080/08917779108248770",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08917779108248770"
}