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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
- 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. Department of Psychology
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/128721
- Identifier
- mq:13939
- Identifier
- ISSN:0005-7967
- Identifier
- mq-rm-2010004248
- Language
- eng
- Reviewed
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