Each company has information about itself...

[GoldfishLord]

Each company has information about itself...

Source: https://www.theledger.com/story/bus...ers-about-crowdfunding-investing/27153148007/

Anxiety also has an immediacy about it that pressures you to worry now and keep worrying.

Source: https://www.healthcentral.com/article/some-techniques-for-coping-with-stress-storms

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Those two sentences have similar constructions.
What's the reason "it" is used in the second sentence even though "itself" is used in the first sentence?

 

[Tarheel]

I suppose you could use "itself" in the second one. In fact, if you insist upon it go right ahead.

 

[jutfrank]

Anxiety also has an immediacy about it that pressures you to worry now and keep worrying.

I consider the highlighted coloured part an idiomatic form of expression.

She has something about her that I can't explain.
Pete had a certain joy about him that was infectious.

In this form of expression, the object pronoun is used, not the reflexive one.

 

[GoldfishLord]

In the first sentence, "information about itself" is a noun phrase but in the second sentence, "an immediacy about it" is not a noun phrase.

It seems to me that "it" should be used after "about" because "an immediacy about it" is not a noun phrase.
What do you say?

 

[jutfrank]

in the second sentence, "an immediacy about it" is not a noun phrase.

Please explain how you've reached this conclusion.

It seems to me that "it" should be used after "about" because "an immediacy about it" is not a noun phrase.
What do you say?

I have almost no idea of what you're thinking or why you're thinking it.

Why are you talking about noun phrases? Read post #3 again.

 

[SoothingDave]

A company can be personified. Anxiety is not being personified here. So there is no "self."

 

[GoldfishLord]

Please explain how you've reached this conclusion.

Is the "an immediacy about it " in "Anxiety also has an immediacy about it" a noun phrase?
I think that "about" means "in the nature of".

 

[jutfrank]

Is the "an immediacy about it " in "Anxiety also has an immediacy about it" a noun phrase?

Yes.

 

[GoldfishLord]

Anxiety also has an immediacy about it that pressures you to worry now and keep worrying.

I consider the highlighted coloured part an idiomatic form of expression.

She has something about her that I can't explain.
Pete had a certain joy about him that was infectious.

In this form of expression, the object pronoun is used, not the reflexive one.

Now, I understand.
I'd like to ask another question.

Are "something about her" and "a certain joy about him" not noun phrases?

 

[Tarheel]

They are definitely noun phrases.