The purpose of this study was to investigate the relation between persistent prolonged dysfunction in parents and the development of Generalized Anxiety disorder (GAD). Initially, 940 adult subjects from a general practice were studied. Thirty-two parents aged 24 to 61 yr diagnosed with GAD served as the experimental group, while 117 healthy normal parents aged 24-66 yr made up the control grou...

BACKGROUND Data on mental health among orphaned children in India are scanty. We compared the generalized anxiety, conduct and peer relationship problems and their associated risk factors among children orphaned by HIV/AIDS and those due to other reasons in the Indian city of Hyderabad. METHODS Four hundred orphaned children aged 12 to 16 years residing in orphanages in Hyderabad were sampled...

Although social anxiety disorder appears to confer impairment in friendships, evidence beyond self-report is minimal. We used the flexible iterated prisoner's dilemma as a simulated interaction with a friend with 27 individuals with the generalized type of social anxiety disorder and 23 demographically equivalent individuals without the disorder. Participants with generalized social anxiety dis...

AJvances in clinical cognitive science : form:1l madding of processes ;1nd -;yrnptoms / c,litcd by R1charcl W.). Neufeld.1st cd. p.; ern. lnclucks bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 97K-l-~9147-7K4-6 ISBI\:-10: 1-59147-784-0 1. PsycholcJgy, PathulngicaL 2. Cogmrive science. L Neufeld, Richad \'\/. ]. [DNLM: 1. Cognition Disorde"-cliagn<~'LS. 2. Clmic1l :-.kdicme-methuds. 3. Cognitio...

Sensory-processing sensitivity is assumed to be a heritable vulnerability factor for shyness. The present study is the first to examine sensory-processing sensitivity among individuals with social anxiety disorder. The results showed that the construct is separate from social anxiety, but it is highly correlated with harm avoidance and agoraphobic avoidance. Individuals with a generalized subty...

Although individual differences exist in how people respond to positive affect (PA), little research addresses PA regulation in people with anxiety disorders. The goal of this study was to provide information about responses to PA in people with symptoms of social phobia, generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, agoraphobia, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. The tendency to dampen PA and ...

OBJECTIVE The authors sought to determine the association between treatment for generalized anxiety disorder and the risk of major depression among adults in the community. METHOD Data were drawn from the National Comorbidity Survey (N=8,098), a representative sample of the United States population age 15-54. Cox proportional hazards were used to determine the association between specific for...