ABSTRACT
Many of the authors who are represented in this volume are interested primarily in the experimental and behavioral phenomena that come together under the label “anxiety.” In their explorations of that topic area, they have found that there are important associations between the experience of anxiety and various kinds of self-related cognitions. We, in contrast, come to the subject matter of this volume from the opposite direction. We have been interested for some time in a specific set of cognitive and behavioral processes that are related to the self. In our explorations of these processes, we have come to find that they have some interesting implications for the understanding of anxiety and other unpleasant feelings that are created in stressful circumstances, feelings such as frustration and depression.
