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At the beginning of chapter one in Anxiety: A Very Short Introduction, the authors first go over an abstract
of what anxiety is. In the abstract, they come to the conclusion that anxiety is an emotion and is unavoidable.
They describe anxiety as being a feeling that something bad is going to happen but not knowing precisely what
it is. Based on that experience of anxiety the authors come up with statistics regarding anxiety. The statistics
come from both the United States and the United Kingdom and revolve around adults. More and more adults
feel more stressed in the modern world than they had prior. Along with basic statistics on adults’ experience
with anxiety, the chapter also includes statistics on how many people suffer from clinical levels of anxiety. After
contextualizing anxiety in the modern world then the writers discuss the word anxiety as a whole. They show the
roots of the word and show the word translated in different languages. With the different languages and roots, the
writers attach synonyms to the word anxiety. The chapter then goes into depth about the history of the study of anxiety.
Anxiety used to be categorized into nervous illness until it was later studied as something totally separate. The rest of
the chapter discusses anxiety as an emotion and the facial expressions associated with it. In the end, the chapter goes
more in-depth in the definition of anxiety.
For this source, the intended audience is for beginners. The first chapter does not go into depth about any of the topics
covered but it touches on a wide variety of topics concerning anxiety. Helped with getting vocabulary for better
and more focused searches. Even though it is an academic source it does not use overwhelmingly difficult vocabulary.
An easy read that is clear and concise. A good source for any project that even touches on anxiety or stress because the
chapter brings up so many different topics that it forces readers to look at anxiety in a different way. Readers also gain
a better all-around understanding of anxiety, just not in-depth. This chapter relates to my other sources because I am
researching stress and anxiety in women especially mothers and this chapter on anxiety gave the debriefing that I needed.
It touched on topics I did not even consider and in doing so helped me focus my researching. My other sources talk more
about stress and anxiety in a woman’s life so to understand what that stress and anxiety are specifically helped me better
dissect the other readings that mentioned anxiety but never defined it.
Anxiety : A Very Short Introduction. Oxford, United Kingdom, Oxford University Press, 2012, pp. 2–13.
At the beginning of chapter one in Anxiety: A Very Short Introduction, the authors first go over an abstract
of what anxiety is. In the abstract, they come to the conclusion that anxiety is an emotion and is unavoidable.
They describe anxiety as being a feeling that something bad is going to happen but not knowing precisely what
it is. Based on that experience of anxiety the authors come up with statistics regarding anxiety. The statistics
come from both the United States and the United Kingdom and revolve around adults. More and more adults
feel more stressed in the modern world than they had prior. Along with basic statistics on adults’ experience
with anxiety, the chapter also includes statistics on how many people suffer from clinical levels of anxiety. After
contextualizing anxiety in the modern world then the writers discuss the word anxiety as a whole. They show the
roots of the word and show the word translated in different languages. With the different languages and roots, the
writers attach synonyms to the word anxiety. The chapter then goes into depth about the history of the study of anxiety.
Anxiety used to be categorized into nervous illness until it was later studied as something totally separate. The rest of
the chapter discusses anxiety as an emotion and the facial expressions associated with it. In the end, the chapter goes
more in-depth in the definition of anxiety.
For this source, the intended audience is for beginners. The first chapter does not go into depth about any of the topics
covered but it touches on a wide variety of topics concerning anxiety. Helped with getting vocabulary for better
and more focused searches. Even though it is an academic source it does not use overwhelmingly difficult vocabulary.
An easy read that is clear and concise. A good source for any project that even touches on anxiety or stress because the
chapter brings up so many different topics that it forces readers to look at anxiety in a different way. Readers also gain
a better all-around understanding of anxiety, just not in-depth. This chapter relates to my other sources because I am
researching stress and anxiety in women especially mothers and this chapter on anxiety gave the debriefing that I needed.
It touched on topics I did not even consider and in doing so helped me focus my researching. My other sources talk more
about stress and anxiety in a woman’s life so to understand what that stress and anxiety are specifically helped me better
dissect the other readings that mentioned anxiety but never defined it.
Anxiety : A Very Short Introduction. Oxford, United Kingdom, Oxford University Press, 2012, pp. 2–13.