Anxiety and Self-Focused Attention

Ralf Schwarzer, Robert A. Wicklund

Preface. Introduction Robert A. Wicklund Part 1: Self-Focus and Negative Affect 1. A Control-Process Perspective on Anxiety Charles S. Carver and Michael F. Scheier 2. Anxiety, Self-Preoccupation and Attention Irwin G. Sarason 3. Self-Evaluation and Self-Perception: The Role of Attention in the Experience of Anxiety Frederick X. Gibbons 4. Self-Consciousness, Role Discrepancy, and Depressive Affect Jay G. Hull, Nora P. Reilly and Louis C. Ennis 5. Anxiety and Depression: An Information Processing Perspective Aaron T. Beck and David A. Clark 6. The Effects of Self-Focused Attention on Perspective-Taking and Anxiety R. Glen Hass and Donna Eisenstadt 7. A Terror Management Analysis of Self-Awareness and Anxiety: The Hierarchy of Terror Tom Pyszczynski, Jeff Greenberg, Sheldon Solomon and James Hamilton Part 2: Task-Irrelevant Cognitions, Expectancies, and Performance 8. Self-Efficacy Conception of Anxiety Albert Bandura 9. Competence and Control Orientations as Predictors of Test Anxiety in Students: Longitudinal Results Günter Krampen 10. Anxiety and Attention Michael W. Eysenck 11. Thought Listing and Endorsement Measures of Self-Referential Thinking in Test Anxiety Kirk R. Blankstein, Gordon L. Flett, Paul Boase and Brenda B. Toner 12. Performance Deficits Following Failure: Integrating Motivational and Functional Aspects of Learned Helplessness Joachim Stiensmeier-Pelster and Martin Schürmann 13. Test Anxiety and Causal Attributions: Some Evidence toward Replication John J. Hedl, Jr. Subject and Author Indexes.