įear and anxiety can be differentiated into four domains: (1) duration of emotional experience, (2) temporal focus, (3) specificity of the threat, and (4) motivated direction.
In positive psychology, anxiety is described as the mental state that results from a difficult challenge for which the subject has insufficient coping skills. Another description of anxiety is agony, dread, terror, or even apprehension. David Barlow defines anxiety as "a future-oriented mood state in which one is not ready or prepared to attempt to cope with upcoming negative events," and that it is a distinction between future and present dangers which divides anxiety and fear. There is a false presumption that often circulates that anxiety only occurs in situations perceived as uncontrollable or unavoidable, but this is not always so. Anxiety is related to the specific behaviors of fight-or-flight responses, defensive behavior or escape.
3.3 Stranger, social, and intergroup anxietyĪnxiety is distinguished from fear, which is an appropriate cognitive and emotional response to a perceived threat. Part of the definition of an anxiety disorder, which distinguishes it from every day anxiety, is that it is persistent, typically lasting 6 months or more, although the criterion for duration is intended as a general guide with allowance for some degree of flexibility and is sometimes of shorter duration in children. There are multiple forms of anxiety disorder (such as Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) with specific clinical definitions. Though anxiety may be considered a normal human response, when excessive or persisting beyond developmentally appropriate periods it may be diagnosed as an anxiety disorder. People facing anxiety may withdraw from situations which have provoked anxiety in the past. Anxiety is closely related to fear, which is a response to a real or perceived immediate threat anxiety involves the expectation of future threat including dread. It is often accompanied by muscular tension, restlessness, fatigue, inability to catch one's breath, tightness in the abdominal region, and problems in concentration. Īnxiety is a feeling of uneasiness and worry, usually generalized and unfocused as an overreaction to a situation that is only subjectively seen as menacing. 
It is often accompanied by nervous behavior such as pacing back and forth, somatic complaints, and rumination. Anxiety is an emotion characterized by an unpleasant state of inner turmoil and includes subjectively unpleasant feelings of dread over anticipated events.
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