“…Indeed, studies examining the relationship between self-report measures of attentional control and trait anxiety have frequently reported their inverse dependency (Abasi, Mohammadkhani, Pourshahbaz, & Dolatshahi, 2017;Fajkowska & Derryberry, 2010;Judah, Grant, Mills, & Lechner, 2014;Ólafsson et al, 2011). However, most of these studies employed the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI-T) (Spielberger, Gorusch, & Lushene, 1970) as a measure of trait anxiety, which is believed to tap more into the average anxiety level rather than the general sensitivity of anxiety system (Carver & White, 1994;Fowles, 1987).…”