Background: Past research has shown farmer anxiety and stress have significantly affected many farmers and their families due not only to the impact on feelings of happiness and success, but also on output efficiency, accident rates, and health. The past approach to ameliorating anxiety has been through utilizing coping mechanisms such as sharing with significant others, venting, planning, self-blame, and positive thinking. A problem has also been farmers' reluctance to voice difficulties and seek help.Method: An alternative, more basic approach to anxiety amelioration is possible. This involves isolating the human characteristics that lead to anxiety, and subsequently modifying these to reduce anxiety and its associated impacts. Accordingly, the extensive literature on anxiety and stress was reviewed to facilitate developing an hypothesis outlining the important components explaining farmer anxiety. To assess the parameters of farmer anxiety, a random survey of New Zealand farmers was used to obtain their ratings on their anxiety. Regression models were used to quantify the relationships.Results: Specific farmer personal characteristics were shown to be highly related to anxiety. These included a farmer's personality, objective set, belief in their ability to control outcomes, as well as education and age.Conclusion: This analysis provides the information required to direct counseling efforts to modify the anxiety creating personal variables and, consequently, reduce anxiety and its impact on a longer term basis.

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农民作为焦虑驱动因素的人格特征分析。

背景：过去的研究表明，农民的焦虑和压力不仅影响幸福感和成功感，而且影响产出效率，事故率和健康，因此对许多农民及其家庭产生了重大影响。过去缓解焦虑的方法是利用应对机制，例如与重要的人共享，发泄，计划，自责和积极思考。问题还在于农民不愿表达困难和寻求帮助。方法：可以采用另一种更基本的缓解焦虑的方法。这包括隔离导致焦虑的人类特征，然后对其进行修改以减少焦虑及其相关的影响。因此，审查了有关焦虑和压力的大量文献，以促进提出一个假说，该假说概述了解释农民焦虑的重要因素。为了评估农民焦虑的参数，使用了对新西兰农民的随机调查来获得他们对焦虑的评分。结果：特定的农民人格特征与焦虑高度相关。这些包括农民的个性，目标集，对他们控制结果的能力的信念以及教育程度和年龄。结论：该分析提供了指导咨询工作所需的信息，以改变人为的焦虑感，从而减少人为因素并减轻焦虑感。它的影响是长期的。为了评估农民焦虑的参数，使用了对新西兰农民的随机调查来获得他们对焦虑的评分。结果：特定的农民人格特征与焦虑高度相关。这些包括农民的性格，目标集，对他们控制结果的能力的信念以及教育程度和年龄。结论：本分析提供了指导咨询工作以修改焦虑从而创建个人变量并因此减少焦虑和焦虑所需的信息。它的影响是长期的。为了评估农民焦虑的参数，使用了对新西兰农民的随机调查来获得他们对焦虑的评分。结果：特定的农民个人特征与焦虑高度相关。这些包括农民的性格，目标集，对他们控制结果的能力的信念以及教育程度和年龄。结论：本分析提供了指导咨询工作以修改焦虑从而创建个人变量并因此减少焦虑和焦虑所需的信息。它的影响是长期的。农民的具体个性特征与焦虑高度相关。这些包括农民的个性，目标集，对他们控制结果的能力的信念以及教育程度和年龄。结论：该分析提供了指导咨询工作所需的信息，以改变人为的焦虑感，从而减少人为因素并减轻焦虑感。它的影响是长期的。农民的具体个性特征与焦虑高度相关。这些包括农民的性格，目标集，对他们控制结果的能力的信念以及教育程度和年龄。结论：本分析提供了指导咨询工作以修改焦虑从而创建个人变量并因此减少焦虑和焦虑所需的信息。它的影响是长期的。