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One hundred twelve adults randomly selected from a periodontal practice participated in research to determine whether the personality traits of people who chronically brux (grind their teeth) diverge significantly from the personality traits of those who do not do so. All participants completed a personality questionnaire and were examined by the periodontist, who determined which were chronic bruxers. Twenty-eight of the men and 46 of the women were diagnosed as bruxers. Their personality trait scores differed significantly from those of the nonbruxers. In general, and regardless of gender, chronic bruxers were found to be shy, stiff, cautious, and aloof, preferring things rather than people, avoiding compromises, rigid in their ways, affected by feelings of inferiority, impeded in expressing themselves, apprehensive, and given to worrying.

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The psychology of anxiety continues to be debated by researchers, as well as therapists. By investigating it with phenomenological methods, I have been able to determine its three existential preconditions; the way in which an anxious situation announces a crisis of one's efforts to surpass one's unacceptable incompleteness; being anxious as being impeded, if not fundamentally blocked, and moving beyond being anxious as either ambivalently reaffirming the viability of the projects and relations in which one was already invested, or as transformatively accepting those projects and relations as fundamentally uncertain and hence, as open to future determination. This document is copyrighted by the American Psychological Association or one of its allied publishers.This article is intended solely for the personal use of the individual user and is not to be disseminated broadly.