PERCEIVED THREAT AND PERCEIVED CONTROL AS PREDICTORS OF THE DEGREE OFFEAR IN PHYSICAL AND SOCIAL SITUATIONS

Seventy-one nonclinical subjects indicated their degree of anxiety or fear in response to five physical threat situations and four social th reat situations. In addition, for each situation, they rated the proba bility and consequences of danger or threat generally associated with each situation and the degree of perceived control that they believed they would personally have in each situation. Multiple regressions ind icated that only general probability of threat predicted fear in physi cal situations while the general consequences of threat and the degree of personal control predicted fear in response to social situations. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd.