Personality categories | Stressful situations depicted in the 1st drawing | |||
Mainly external and limited short-term agents | Mainly external agents but with intense emotional resonance | Long-term stressful agents, great extension and strong involvement of the self | Mean scores of conflict and emotional tension (indicators: N = neuroticism; X-2 = trait anxiety) | |
Category A. Very anxious subjects n = 26 (18.6%) | 1 (3.9%) | 3 (11.5%) | 22 (84.6%) | N = 35.9; X-2 = 58.7 |
Category B. Averagely anxious subjects n = 68 (48.6%) | 12(17.7%) | 20 (29.4%) | 36 (52.9%) | N = 25.7; X-2 = 44.1 |
Category C. Not very anxious subjects n = 46 (32.8%) | 17 (37.0%) | 14 (30.4%) | 15 (32.6%) | N = 10.8; X-2 = 31.0 |