Trait anxiety refers to a personality characteristic that manifests itself as a more or less constant feeling of dread or uneasiness.
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Trait anxiety refers to a personality characteristic that manifests itself as a more or less constant feeling of dread or uneasiness.

Trait anxiety reflects the existence of stable individual differences in the tendency to respond with state anxiety in the anticipation of threatening situations.

Trait anxiety is also known as A-Trait.