Editing Anxiety (section)

===Trait===
Anxiety can be either a short-term "state" or a long-term "[[personality]] trait". Trait anxiety reflects a stable tendency across the lifespan of responding with acute, state anxiety in the anticipation of threatening situations (whether they are actually deemed threatening or not).<ref>{{cite web | vauthors = Schwarzer R | collaboration = Psychosocial Working Group | date = December 1997 |title=Anxiety |url=https://macses.ucsf.edu/research/psychosocial/anxiety.php | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180307141654/https://macses.ucsf.edu/research/psychosocial/anxiety.php | archive-date = 7 March 2018 |website=MacArthur SES & Health Network }}</ref> A meta-analysis showed that a high level of [[neuroticism]] is a risk factor for development of anxiety symptoms and disorders.<ref name="NeuroticismMA">{{cite journal | vauthors = Jeronimus BF, Kotov R, Riese H, Ormel J | title = Neuroticism's prospective association with mental disorders halves after adjustment for baseline symptoms and psychiatric history, but the adjusted association hardly decays with time: a meta-analysis on 59 longitudinal/prospective studies with 443 313 participants | journal = Psychological Medicine | volume = 46 | issue = 14 | pages = 2883–2906 | date = October 2016 | pmid = 27523506 | doi = 10.1017/S0033291716001653 | s2cid = 23548727 | url = https://zenodo.org/record/895885 | access-date = 2019-07-28 | archive-date = 2019-07-24 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190724213253/https://zenodo.org/record/895885 | url-status = live }}</ref> Such anxiety may be conscious or unconscious.<ref>{{cite book | vauthors = Giddey M, Wright H |title=Mental Health Nursing: From first principles to professional practice |year=1993 |publisher=Stanley Thornes | isbn = 978-0-412-41210-3 }}{{Page needed|date=May 2013}}</ref>

Personality can also be a trait leading to anxiety and depression and their persistence.<ref name=Lancet2021/> Through experience, many find it difficult to collect themselves due to their own personal nature.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.gulfbend.org/poc/view_doc.php?type=doc&id=8948|title=Gulf Bend MHMR Center|access-date=October 11, 2018|archive-date=October 11, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181011214432/https://www.gulfbend.org/poc/view_doc.php?type=doc&id=8948|url-status=dead}}</ref>