TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1999//
TI  - Mood congruence, anxiety, attitude and abortion
JO  - Anxiety, stress, and coping
A1  - Rosén, Anne-Sofie
SP  - 85
EP  - 102
VL  - 12
IS  - 1
N2  - 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 /> 
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SN  - 1061-5806
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10615809908248324
ID  - ref1
ER  -