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  1. According to the anxiety and Depression Association of America anxiety disorders
  2. are the most common mental illness in the United States,
  3. affecting 40 million individuals over 18 years of age.
  4. Every year,
  5. we have conducted our own study to research
  6. the correlations between anxiety and emotion regulation.
  7. More specifically,
  8. we've examined if emotion regulation practices decreased anxiety individuals
  9. To accurately test this. We've created two hypotheses.
  10. Both of these hypotheses examined if anxiety was negatively correlated with
  11. cognitive reappraisal or emotion suppression in regards to emotion regulation.
  12. To do this.
  13. We've used the general anxiety disorder scale to properly swore our data.
  14. We've also used the Hambleton anxiety rating scale to
  15. measure the severity of anxiety symptoms in individuals.
  16. Using these two scales,
  17. we were able to determine whether individuals experienced anxiety
  18. and to what level they had physical symptoms.
  19. Our sample included roughly 69 individuals
  20. who completed a short demographic section.
  21. There was a wide age range of individuals who completed
  22. this section ranging in ages from 18 to 57.
  23. The majority of the participants in our sample were white females.
  24. Therefore, this sample was not as diverse and ethnicity or it's sex as we had hoped.
  25. Our results found that our hypotheses were not
  26. supported and the variables were not correlated.
  27. Although our hypotheses were not supported,
  28. there are a couple other possible explanations as
  29. to why the data was not statistically significant.
  30. The sample has had the potential to
  31. be biased because the majority of the participants
  32. were white female and college age.
  33. We did not have much time to collect data which
  34. hindered the ability to attract a more diverse sample.
  35. The design of the study is based on self report from the individuals participating,
  36. and it is possible that the individuals did
  37. not accurately report their answers in the questionnaire,
  38. it is useful to note that emotion regulation may not
  39. always be correlated to anxiety in a broader context.
  40. It is indicated that emotion regulation may be higher
  41. in some individuals with anxiety and lower in others.
  42. Even though our original hypothesis was not supported,
  43. it is beneficial to future research to obtain a more diverse
  44. sample in race and gender by the distributing two more individuals,
  45. which results in a higher response rate.
  46. By utilizing this strategy,
  47. there may be more significant outcomes on
  48. the effect of anxiety with emotion regulation usage
  49. overall,
  50. we have found that anxiety is independent from emotion
  51. regulation strategies from the sample that we have obtained.