ReviewPathways from anxiety to stressful events: An expansion of the stress generation hypothesis

- We address whether anxiety predicts increased occurrence of dependent stressors.
- In our review, physiological hyperarousal did not predict increased dependent stressors.
- We propose a model that incorporates distal and proximal factors of stress generation.
- As a distal factor, neuroticism was consistently associated with stress generation.
- More longitudinal studies using contextual interviews will advance the literature.