Showing papers in "Behaviour Research and Therapy in 1990"

TL;DR: The worry questionnaire was found not to correlate with other measures of anxiety or depression, indicating that it is tapping an independent construct with severely anxious individuals, and coping desensitization plus cognitive therapy was found to produce significantly greater reductions in the measure than did a nondirective therapy condition.

TL;DR: Evidence is summarized to show that anxious subjects selectively attend to threatening information, and interpret ambiguous events in a relatively threatening way, but the evidence on memory suggests that although such information may be easily activated, it is not necessarily more accessible.

TL;DR: The frequencies of reporting the presence of thoughts and images among generalized anxiety disorder clients and matched, nonanxious control subjects during a self-relaxation period and a worry period suggest that worry is principally thought-like in content.

TL;DR: Current theoretical models are critically evaluated and a cognitive-behavioural approach is proposed to account for the development and maintenance of hypochondriacal problems.

TL;DR: The results suggest that worry may inhibit emotional processing and thus preserve cognitive/affective fear structure, and are discussed in terms of Gray's theory of the behavioral inhibition system and semantic satiation effects in cognitive psychology.

TL;DR: It is proposed that a cultural ideal of thinness for women causes depression at a higher rate among women than among men and four parallel trends in eating disorders can be accounted for by the same factor.

TL;DR: It is suggested that panic disorder, like other anxiety disorders, is associated with an attentional bias for processing threatening information.

TL;DR: Investigation of processes of change after disconfirmation showed that anxiety experienced during treatment is a factor that plays a part in maintaining the problem of inaccurate expectations and fear of treatment.

TL;DR: These findings suggest the presence of an emotion-focused coping triad consisting of wishful thinking, self blame, and avoidance, all of which appear to be maladaptive strategies when coping with chronic medical conditions.

TL;DR: Using a reliable and valid structured diagnostic interview scale (ADIS-R), and patients with careful medical characterization, it is found significantly more diagnosable psychopathology, particularly anxiety disorders, among treatment seeking patients with irritable bowel syndrome than among comparable age and sex samples of treatmentseeking patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

TL;DR: The results of this study demonstrate that perceived support is an important factor in the rehabilitation of chronic pain patients.

TL;DR: Two-thirds of the high anxiety sensitivity subjects had never experienced an unpredictable panic attack, suggesting that the fear of anxiety can be acquired in ways other than through personal experience with panic.

TL;DR: The characteristics of social phobia and shyness were compared on six dimensions: somatic features, cognitive characteristics, behavioral responses, daily functioning, clinical course, and onset characteristics and it was revealed that shyness and socialphobia have a number of similar features.

TL;DR: Directions for future research are outlined, including the proposal for a study to examine the effects of an anxiety intervention procedure for anxious alcoholics to reduce relapse rates.

TL;DR: Patients with the diagnosis of primary phobia seemed to get the same profit from either treatment and showed slightly better gains (in all treatment modalities) than patients with skills deficits at long-term follow-up.

TL;DR: The psychometric properties of the Padua inventory, a self-report measure of obsessive-compulsive behaviors, were examined in a sample of 678 American college students and suggested a four factor solution.

TL;DR: The results suggest that one pathway leading from pessimistic explanatory style to poor health is mundane: passivity in the face of disease.

TL;DR: The results provide support for a cognitive model of panic and are inconsistent with the view that panic is simply a symptom of hyperventilation syndrome.

TL;DR: Patients with higher self-efficacy scores following treatment rated themselves as more improved and demonstrated better overall functioning with greater reductions in chronic illness behavior at followup.

TL;DR: Investigation of the predictive validity of the Maudsley Obsessional-Compulsive Inventory using the Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule (ADIS), a semi-structured interview created according to DSM-III guidelines, provides further support for the validity ofThe MOCI in nonclinical samples over a 6-7 month interval.

TL;DR: Sixteen men were tested under conditions where they viewed the same segment of erotic film on many occasions or engaged repeatedly in the same erotic fantasy, showing that habituation was less when allowance was made for the manner in which absorption changed during erotic stimulation.

TL;DR: The effectiveness of an integrated treatment program utilizing cognitive-behavioral therapies for Panic Disorder was examined, and analyses indicated statistically significant improvements across all outcome domains.

TL;DR: Worriers and nonworriers from a college population were compared on the Imaginal Processing Inventory, the Self-Consciousness scale, and the Sandler-Hazari Obsessionality Inventory, suggesting that instructed fear images are insufficient to initiate worrisome episodes.

TL;DR: Initial panic attacks were likely to occur at any time of year, and were associated with reported stressors in 72% of the cases, and the most frequently reportedstressors were somatic in nature.

TL;DR: The purpose of this investigation was to further define the role of anxiety sensitivity, in relation to physiological arousal and the cognitive perception of anxiousness, as a determinant of anxiety.

TL;DR: Findings suggest that the laboratory stress induction procedure was externally valid and that in the natural environment, stress has a hyperglycemic effect on blood glucose.

TL;DR: An observation made previously in the literature that practice of meditation is associated with reduced cognitive anxiety, or that exercise is linked with lower somatic anxiety is unable to be confirmed.

TL;DR: The characteristics of a programmable hand-held computer used to collect hourly and event generated data for 7 days on 20 subjects with panic disorder provided relatively inexpensive data collection and management.

TL;DR: It is shown that a 'triple-response' model of anxiety is consistent with the conclusion that NFPD should be conceptualized as a panic disorder subtype, and that this group resembles conventional panic disorder in cross-sectional comparisons.