BACKGROUND Worry is a significant problem for individuals with paranoia, leading to delusion persistence and greater levels of distress. There are established theories concerning processes that maintain worry but little has been documented regarding what brings worry to a close. AIMS The aim was to find out what patients with persecutory delusions report are the factors that bring a worry epi...

Grounded in the transactional stress-coping theory and Tallis Eysenck (1994) model of nonpathological worry, present study sought to advance conceptual empirical understanding financial worry (FW). We positioned objective stressors (OFS), subjective (SFS), coping resources as key variables determinants The cross-sectional data consisted responses from a representative sample 19,385 adults, aged...

Theories regarding worry have discussed both adaptive and maladaptive functions. The present study used rating scales of the six reasons for worry commonly reported by generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) clients to explore subjective perceptions of the functions of worry held by college student worriers meeting self-reported criteria for GAD and by control subjects. Subjects rated motivation, pr...

Uncontrollable anxious thought characterizes a number of emotional disorders and has been linked to impaired emotional and physical health. The present research aimed to clarify the nature of uncontrollable worry as a clinical and cognitive construct. Chapter 1 evaluated uncontrollability of worry as a diagnostic criterion for generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). This study was conducted in resp...

OBJECTIVES To determine whether five psychosocial variables, namely, religiosity, morality, perceived promiscuity, cancer worry frequency, and cancer worry severity, predict young women's intentions to receive the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination. METHODS Female undergraduate students (n=408) completed an online survey. Questions pertaining to hypothesized predictors were analyzed throu...

Recently, Jensen et al. argued that dispositional cancer worry was (a) distinct from dispositional worry and (b) defined by two underlying dimensions: severity and frequency [1]. Worry severity refers to the intensity of the affect whereas worry frequency represents how often cancer-related thoughts occur. Based on exploratory factor analysis, Jensen et al. advocated an eight-item measure with ...

Background The Cognitive Avoidance Theory of Worry argues that worry is a cognitive strategy adopted to control the physiological arousal associated with anxiety. According to this theory, pathological worry, as in Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), is verbal in nature, negative and abstract, rather than concrete. Neuroimaging studies link the expression of worry to characteristic modes of bra...

Surprisingly little is known about whether relationships between cognitive and emotional states remain stable or change over time, or how different patterns of stability and/or change in the relationships affect problem solving abilities. Nevertheless, cross-sectional studies show that anxiety/worry may reduce working memory (WM) resources, and the ability to minimize the effects anxiety/worry ...

The effects of worry and rumination on affective states and mentation type were examined in an unselected undergraduate sample in Study 1 and in a sample of individuals with high trait worry and rumination, high rumination, and low worry/rumination in Study 2. Participants engaged in worry and rumination inductions, counterbalanced in order across participants to assess main and interactive eff...