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Trait levels of anxiety and psychological responses to stress in migraineurs and normal controls
Author(s) -
Price Kenneth P.,
Blackwell Scott
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(198007)36:3<658::aid-jclp2270360308>3.0.co;2-#
Subject(s) - psychology , eysenck personality questionnaire , migraine , anxiety , clinical psychology , personality , feeling , trait , locus of control , minnesota multiphasic personality inventory , personality assessment inventory , depression (economics) , psychiatry , developmental psychology , big five personality traits , social psychology , extraversion and introversion , computer science , programming language , macroeconomics , economics
Compared migraine headache sufferers and matched normal controls on the Zung Depression Inventory, Eysenck Personality Inventory, Spielberger Trait Anxiety Inventory, Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale and the Health Locus of Control. In addition S s viewed a film of a subincision ceremony and completed a post‐film questionnaire. Migraineurs scored significantly higher than the controls on the TMAS, STAI and EPI Lie scale and rated the subincision film as significantly less unpleasant than did the controls. These results confirm earlier reports that migraineurs have higher levels of trait anxiety than normals and support the traditional description of migraineurs as inhibiting the expression of their feelings.