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Editor’s essay: From anxiety to action

One study by the American Psychological Association (2017) revealed that 63% of Americans indicated “the future of the nation” to be a significant source of stress, whereas 62% were stressed about money, 61% about work, and 57% about the “current political climate” (p. 1). One year later, the numbers rose to 69% reporting significant stress about the future of the nation, 64% about both work and money, and 62% about the current political climate (American Psychological Association, 2018). In short, stress levels are rising in general, at least in the United States. In some respects, of course, feeling stressed to some extent is normal, because “stress is how the brain and body respond to any demand” (5 Things You Should Know About Stress, n.d., n.p.), and “occasional anxiety is an expected part of life” (National Institute of Mental Health, 2018, n.p.). Defined as “apprehensive uneasiness or nervousness usually over an impending or anticipated ill” and “mentally distressing concern or interest” (Merriam-Webster, 2019, n.p.), anxiety happens to us all, at one point or another. One common instrument used by researchers to measure anxiety is the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) originated by Spielberger, Gorsuch, and Lushene (1970). Extending the conceptual usefulness of the STAI, Siddaway, Taylor, and Wood (2018) found that anxiety can be measured not merely by its presence or absence, but rather on a continuum of anxiety-calmness.