Stimuli related to stress, neuroticism, excitation, and anxiety response patterns: Illustrating a new multivariate experimental design.

The present study serves both as a vehicle for the demonstration of a new research design which combines analysis of variance and factor analytic techniques, as well as to experimentally demonstrate that an affect assumed to be characteristic of a stimulus, e.g., anxiety, may be distinguished from the affect as experienced by a person. Moreover, anxiety is seen as a multivariate, not univariate, complex. The present findings are related to previous research by Cattell and his associates as well as what meaning this bears on other research, e.g., the Taylor Anxiety Scale. 23 refs. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)