Worry is a common phenomenon in children and adolescents, with some experiencing excessive worries that cause significant distress and interference. The metacognitive model of generalized anxiety disorder (Wells 1995, 2009) was developed to explain cognitive processes associated with pathological worry in adults, particularly the role of positive and negative beliefs about worry. This review ev...

Dedication This dissertation is dedicated to Robert A. Brown. Your support has made my work possible. Your generosity, patience, kindness, and wisdom continue to teach me what is important in life. I hope to have the opportunity to give to others a fraction of what you have given to me. Thanks dad. This work was conducted in an effort to better understand the role that activational mechanisms i...

Worry, the anticipation of future threat, is a common feature of anxiety and mood psychopathology. Considerable research has examined the latent structure of worry to determine whether this construct reflects a dimensional or taxonic structure. Recent taxometric investigations have provided support for a unidimensional structure of worry; however, the results of these studies are limited in tha...

background and purpose: worry, as a cognitive domain to anxiety, defined as a central feature of some clinical disorders. worry plays an important role in psychopathology. among general population, higher education students are experiencing worry in several domains, which can influence on their educational performance and social activities. methods: in this study worry domains of zabol public u...

Researchers have described 2 types of worriers, normal and pathological, who differ in the frequency, intensity, and controllability of their worry experiences. Although normal and pathological worry are generally treated as separate though related phenomena, no study has tested for separateness against the alternative hypothesis that all worry exists along a single dimension. In the present st...

Worry is considered as one of the shared cognitive components in generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). The study of cognitive factors influencing worry simultaneously has important implications for psychopathology. These factors have been discussed separately in different theoretical models. The aim of the present study was to investigate the simple and mul...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Worry is predominantly a verbal-linguistic process with relatively little imagery. This study investigated whether the verbal nature of worry contributes to the maintenance of worry by enhancing attention to threat. It was hypothesised that verbal worry would lead to greater attentional bias to threat than imagery-based worry. METHODS Fifty high-worriers were randoml...