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Title: Fear and perceived uncontrollability of emotion : evaluating the unique contribution of emotion appraisal variables to prediction of worry and generalised anxiety disorder
Related: Behaviour research and therapy, Vol. 48, Issue 11 (2010), p.1097-1104
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2010.07.012
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 2010
FoR/RFCD Code(s): 170100 Psychology
Author/Creator: Stapinski, Lexine A
Author/Creator: Abbott, Maree J
Author/Creator: Rapee, Ronald M
Description: Novel theoretical frameworks place the symptom profile of generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) within the context of dysfunctional emotional processes. It is suggested that fear and intolerance of emotions exacerbate subjective distress and motivate the use of maladaptive coping strategies, such as worry. To date, studies evaluating these models have suffered two key limitations. Firstly, few studies have involved treatment-seeking samples, and secondly, none have evaluated the unique variance attributable to emotion appraisal variables above and beyond previously established predictors of worry and GAD. The present study begins to address these limitations by assessing the contribution of fear and perceived uncontrollability of emotions in predicting worry and clinical GAD status after controlling for variance attributable to depressive symptoms, meta-cognitive beliefs, intolerance of uncertainty, and perceptions of external threat. Supporting current models, results showed that perceived control over emotional reactions was a unique predictor of GAD diagnostic status and both clinical and non-clinical worry.
Description: 8 page(s)
Subject Keyword: 170100 Psychology
Subject Keyword: generalised anxiety disorder
Subject Keyword: GAD
Subject Keyword: meta-worry
Subject Keyword: worry
Subject Keyword: emotion
Subject Keyword: fear of emotion
Subject Keyword: emotion regulation
Subject Keyword: perceived control
Subject Keyword: threat
Subject Keyword: intolerance of uncertainty
Subject Keyword: meta-cognition
Resource Type: journal article
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of Psychology

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/128721
Identifier: ISSN:0005-7967
Identifier: mq-rm-2010004248
Language: eng
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