Relationships between reappraisal as coping with future anxiety, and positive and negative anxiety among adolescents

This study examined the relationships between reappraisal as coping with future anxiety, and positive and negative anxiety among adolescents. We focused on two reappraisal sub-strategies: technical-analytic-problem solving and explicitly positive. The participants were 119 undergraduate and graduate students, and they completed an online survey. The results of the path analysis indicated that technical-analytic-problem solving was negatively related to negative anxiety and explicitly positive was positively related to positive anxiety, suggesting that the two reappraisal sub-strategies are effective as coping with future anxiety.