@article{ref1,
title="Mood congruence, anxiety, attitude and abortion",
journal="Anxiety, stress, and coping",
year="1999",
author="Rosén, Anne-Sofie",
volume="12",
number="1",
pages="85-102",
abstract="Abstract When a person becomes distressed, the mood-congruence hypothesis predicts that the overall pleasantness-unpleasantness of judgements will change accordingly. This study reports the findings of a mood-congruent judgemental effect on the pattern of correlations of state anxiety and attitudes in the preabortion situation, assumed to be stressful to women requesting an early first-trimester abortion. The 58 participating patients were followed up about three weeks later. The mood-congruent effect was no longer present. Trait anxiety did not relate to the mood-congruent effect but strongly afflicted the level with which state anxiety and evaluations were expressed pre- and postabortion.<p />",
language="",
issn="1061-5806",
doi="10.1080/10615809908248324",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10615809908248324"
}