Relations were examined among distal and proximal learning contexts, individual characteristics, and the worry of young adults. Data were collected from 20-yr.-old Australians (3,325 women and 3,070 men). Analysis suggested that learning environment and individual characteristic measures have significant associations with the worry of young adults and that the intensity of worry varies for young adults from different ethnic groups.
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