Features of the Generalized Anxiety Symptoms and Their Influencing Factors

Objective: To explore the features of the generalized anxiety symptoms in university students and their influencing factors.Methods: The Penn State Worry Questionnaire,Meta-worry Questionnaire,Eysenck Personality Questionnaire-revised and Intolerance of Uncertainty Questionnaire were used to investigate the generalized anxiety symptoms and their influencing factors in 1135 undergraduates.Results: Path analysis showed that neuroticism had the most important direct effect on the generalized anxiety symptoms,and also had indirect effect on the generalized anxiety symptoms through uncertainty-caused stress and meta-worry frequency.Conclusion: The influencing factors were neuroticism,uncertainty-caused stress and meta-worry frequency ordinally.And neuroticism also had indirect effect on generalized anxiety symptoms through uncertainty-caused stress and meta-worry frequency.