Experimental Research on Repressive Coping Styles by Weinberger, Schwartz, and Davidson

question 112

Multiple Choice

Experimental research on repressive coping styles by Weinberger, Schwartz, and Davidson demonstrates that:

• A) people's self-reports of their level of anxiety accurately predict the level of anxiety they actually experience when they are in stressful situations.
• B) some individuals who describe themselves as being "low anxious" actually show extremely high levels of anxiety reactions in stressful situations.
• C) mental energy associated with conflicts that date back to childhood and concern sexuality are at the heart of all adult anxiety reactions, whether people realize it or not.
• D) anxiety (or neuroticism) is primarily inherited (i.e., most of the variance in neuroticism is due to genetics).

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