In a 1976 study, Sarason and Stoops found that subjects who scored highly for this attribute overestimated the amount of time spent solving anagrams after being told it was an intelligence test. Charles Spielberger developed the STAI to distinguish between “state” and “trait” forms of this phenomenon. “Normal” and “neurotic” forms of this phenomenon are contrasted in a book titled for The Meaning of [this phenomenon] by Rollo (*) May. The “333 Rule” is a grounding technique most commonly used to combat this phenomenon. The COVID-19 pandemic uniformly exacerbated a class of disorders named for this phenomenon that includes “generalized” and “social” types, or GAD and SAD. For 10 points, depression is often comorbid with what phenomenon of excessive feelings of fear or worry? ■END■
ANSWER: anxiety [accept anxiety attack; social anxiety or Social Anxiety Disorder; accept The Meaning of Anxiety; accept state anxiety; accept trait anxiety; accept State Trait Anxiety Index; accept test anxiety or test anxious; accept Test Anxiety Scale; reject “panic” or “stress”]
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