Does worrying help performance? Is worrying intrinsic to the human dimension? Do animals worry? How is worrying translated into brain physiological processes? Is worry equivalent to stress? Are we all fated to worry till we die? If so, is there a way out?
Hi Vinod, I suspect that worrying is a behaviour that is selected for in evolutionary terms. Antelopes that don't worry about lions probably don't have many offspring. They probably just taste good.
A good beginning source is the book posted at https://leseprobe.buch.de/images-adb/02/f3/02f39720-f410-4224-aed6-464e9e500dce.pdf ... WORRY AND ITS PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS Theory, Assessment and Treatment Edited by Graham C.L. Davey University of Sussex, UK and Adrian Wells University of Manchester, UK
A relevant measure at
Article A multi-dimensional measure of worry: Development and prelim...
...on the issue of measurement there have been a few interesting studies examining what people, particularly young people, worry about-
The application of the Things I Worry About Scale to a sample of at-risk American adolescents: an examination of psychometric properties.
Esters IG, Tracey A, Millar R.
Adolescence. 2007 Winter;42(168):699-721.
Rob Millar , Mary Gallagher & Roger Ellis (1993) Surveying Adolescent Worries: Development of the ‘Things I Worry About’ Scale, Pastoral Care in Education, 11:1, 43-51, DOI: 10.1080/02643949309470826 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/02643949309470826
Validity Studies the "Things I Worry about" Scale: Further Developments in Surveying the Worries of Postprimary School Pupils
Rob Millar and Mary Gallagher
Educational and Psychological Measurement
Vol 56, Issue 6, pp. 972 - 994
First Published December 1, 1996https://doi.org/10.1177/0013164496056006005
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