114 men and women participated in a study which focused on the long-term effect on trait anxiety resulting from a severe flood which occurred in 1972 in Buffalo Creek, West Virginia. Analysis indicates that residents of Buffalo Creek, who did experience the devastating flood, after all these years tend to report higher trait anxiety than do residents of Kopperston who had not been subjected to such a disaster.
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