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Disclosure of traumatic experiences, dissociation, and anxiety in group therapy for posttraumatic stress.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study examined the relationships among the symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, dissociation with self-disclosure among 72 male military veterans with PTSD who were attending an eight-week group therapy treatment program. At intake to the program, participants were administered a baseline demographics questionnaire, the Clinicians Administered PTSD Scale, a dissociation measure, and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). Participants completed the dissociation measure and the HADS again at discharge from the program and at a follow-up three months later. We found that the frequency and...
Source: Anxiety, Stress, and Coping - November 13, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Bowen A, Shelley M, Helmes E, Landman M Tags: Anxiety Stress Coping Source Type: journals

Increasing impact.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19916087 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Anxiety, Stress, and Coping)
Source: Anxiety, Stress, and Coping - November 13, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Stoeber J, Luszczynska A Tags: Anxiety Stress Coping Source Type: journals

Peer relations in the anxiety-depression link: test of a mediation model.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We employed a five-month longitudinal study to test a model in which the association between anxiety and depression symptoms is mediated by peer relations difficulties among a sample of 91 adolescents ages 14-17 (M=15.5, SD=.61) years. Adolescents completed measures of anxiety symptoms, depression symptoms, peer group experiences (i.e., peer acceptance and victimization from peers), and friendship quality (i.e., positive qualities and conflict). As hypothesized, Time 1 anxiety symptoms predicted Time 2 (T2) depression symptoms, and this association was mediated by T2 low perceived peer acceptance and T2 victimization f...
Source: Anxiety, Stress, and Coping - November 13, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Biggs BK, Nelson JM, Sampilo ML Tags: Anxiety Stress Coping Source Type: journals

The role of neuroticism and extraversion in the stress-anxiety and stress-depression relationships.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study addresses these deficits by: (a) focusing on the association between interpersonal and non-interpersonal chronic life stress (CLS) and both depressive and anxiety disorders; (b) examining the roles of neuroticism and low extraversion in these associations; and (c) assessing gender differences. Participants were 603 adolescents from a study examining risk factors for emotional disorders. Depression and social phobia were associated with interpersonal CLS (IP-CLS), with neuroticism partially accounting for these associations. Low extraversion partially accounted for the association between social phobia and IP-CLS...
Source: Anxiety, Stress, and Coping - November 2, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Uliaszek AA, Zinbarg RE, Mineka S, Craske MG, Sutton JM, Griffith JW, Rose R, Waters A, Hammen C Tags: Anxiety Stress Coping Source Type: journals

The importance of the repressive coping style: findings from 30 years of research.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
During the last three decades there has been substantial research exploring the repressive coping style as defined by Weinberger, Schwartz, and Davidson. As "repressors," who score low on trait anxiety and high on defensiveness, account for up to 50% of certain populations, they are an essential group for psychologists to study. However, there are methodological issues in identifying repressors as well as considerable evidence that repressors avoid negative self-relevant information. Possible methods of addressing these difficulties are discussed in this review. Importantly, there is a body of evidence linking repressi...
Source: Anxiety, Stress, and Coping - October 26, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Myers LB Tags: Anxiety Stress Coping Source Type: journals

Perfectionism and athlete burnout in junior elite athletes: the mediating role of coping tendencies.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Recent research indicates that some dimensions of perfectionism are positively related to athlete burnout, whereas others are negatively related to athlete burnout. The divergent relationship between these dimensions of perfectionism and athlete burnout may be explained by different coping tendencies. The present investigation examined whether different coping tendencies mediate the relationship between self-oriented and socially prescribed perfectionism and burnout. Two-hundred and six junior elite athletes (M age=15.15 years, SD=1.88 years, range=11-22 years) completed measures of self-oriented and socially prescribe...
Source: Anxiety, Stress, and Coping - October 11, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Hill AP, Hall HK, Appleton PR Tags: Anxiety Stress Coping Source Type: journals

Psychophysiological effects of emotional dissonance in a face-to-face service interaction.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Current research demonstrates that requirements to express emotions which are not genuinely felt in the particular situation (emotional dissonance) are associated with negative long and short-term effects. The aim of the present study was to investigate: (a) the psychophysiological short-term effects of emotional dissonance in a face-to-face service interaction and (b) the moderating role of gender and neuroticism. In total, 32 women and 27 men were instructed to play the role of a service employee, who had to interact with an angry and rude customer. Half of the sample was given information that the organization expec...
Source: Anxiety, Stress, and Coping - September 17, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Hopp H, Rohrmann S, Zapf D, Hodapp V Tags: Anxiety Stress Coping Source Type: journals

Does narrative writing instruction enhance the benefits of expressive writing?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We examined whether instructing participants to write in a narrative fashion about stressful life events would produce superior physical and psychological health benefits relative to standard expressive writing instructions that do not specify the essay's structure. Undergraduates (N=101) were randomly assigned to engage in two, 20-minute narrative writing, standard expressive writing, or control writing tasks. Follow-up data were obtained one month later. The essays of the narrative writing group evidenced higher levels of narrative structure than did those of the expressive writing group. Greater narrative structure was ...
Source: Anxiety, Stress, and Coping - August 23, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Danoff-Burg S, Mosher CE, Seawell AH, Agee JD Tags: Anxiety Stress Coping Source Type: journals

Common factors of cognitive therapy and interpersonal psychotherapy in the treatment of social phobia.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study aims to shed light on effective components of the therapeutic process in a trial comparing cognitive therapy (CT) and interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) in the treatment of social anxiety disorder (SAD). Sixty-two outpatients with SAD were included in the study. Patients and therapists rated common efficacy factors after each session according to the generic model developed by Grawe (2004). Results show significant differences between treatment conditions on several therapist-rated subscales. Therapist ratings revealed a significantly greater focus on behavioral coping strategies in CT as compared with IPT. In ad...
Source: Anxiety, Stress, and Coping - August 5, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Stangier U, Von Consbruch K, Schramm E, Heidenreich T Tags: Anxiety Stress Coping Source Type: journals

The puzzle of problem-solving efficacy: understanding anxiety among urban children coping with asthma-related and life stress.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Children with asthma living in urban environments are at risk for experiencing anxiety by virtue of both social context and health-related stressors. Although the use of active coping strategies is generally associated with more optimal psychosocial functioning, there is evidence that active coping is less helpful in response to uncontrollable or severe stress. Expectations that one can fix a problem that is uncontrollable or insurmountable may create distress. Problem-solving efficacy was examined as a moderator of the association between stress and anxiety among children residing in inner-city neighborhoods. It was h...
Source: Anxiety, Stress, and Coping - July 26, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Murdock KK, Greene C, Adams SK, Hartmann W, Bittinger S, Will K Tags: Anxiety Stress Coping Source Type: journals

Compassion satisfaction, compassion fatigue, and burnout in a national sample of trauma treatment therapists.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
For behavioral health professionals working with traumatized clients, continuous and prolonged exposure to the stress of working with the myriad of trauma-related stressors experienced by their clients can lead to various responses including burnout, compassion fatigue, and compassion satisfaction. The present study investigates the impact of using evidence-based practices on compassion fatigue, burnout, and compassion satisfaction in a random, national sample of self-identified trauma specialists (N=532). The 30-item Professional Quality of Life Scale (Stamm, 2005) and the 19-item Trauma Practices Questionnaire (Craig...
Source: Anxiety, Stress, and Coping - July 8, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Craig CD, Sprang G Tags: Anxiety Stress Coping Source Type: journals

A short form of the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A short form of the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI-SF) is described. A sample of 1351 adults who had completed the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI) in previous studies provided the basis for item selection. The resulting 10-item form includes two items from each of the five subscales of the original PTGI, selected on the basis of loadings on the original factors and breadth of item content. A separate sample of 186 completed the short form of the scale (PTGI-SF). Confirmatory factor analyses on both data sets demonstrated a five-factor structure for the PTGI-short form (PTGI-SF) equivalent to that of the PTG...
Source: Anxiety, Stress, and Coping - July 5, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Cann A, Calhoun LG, Tedeschi RG, Taku K, Vishnevsky T, Triplett KN, Danhauer SC Tags: Anxiety Stress Coping Source Type: journals

Can a one-weekend group therapy reduce fear of blushing? Results of an open trial.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study aims at gathering preliminary data about an intensive weekend intervention specifically designed for individuals with fear of blushing as the predominant complaint. Treatment consisted of a combination of attention training and behavioral therapy. Thirty-one blushing-fearful individuals meeting the criteria for SAD following the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV (DSM-IV) were treated in three groups. The study was conducted as an open trial. Full assessments were performed before treatment, six weeks after treatment, and at six-month follow-up. Only fear of blushing, the main outcome crite...
Source: Anxiety, Stress, and Coping - June 24, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Chaker S, Hofmann SG, Hoyer J Tags: Anxiety Stress Coping Source Type: journals

Lung function, sociodemographic characteristics, and psychological reaction to transplant associated with chronic stress among lung recipients.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In this study, we investigated whether physical, sociodemographic, or transplant-related psychological factors were associated with the patient's chronic stress level. A cross-sectional study enrolling 76 patients measured chronic stress (Screening Scale, Screening Subscale of Chronic Stress of the Trier Inventory for the Assessment of Chronic Stress) and the emotional effects of the transplant (Transplant Effects Questionnaire), as well as physical and sociodemographic conditions (lung function, bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome, working status, and parenting). Chronic stress after a lung transplant was significantly lowe...
Source: Anxiety, Stress, and Coping - June 17, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Goetzmann L, Irani S, Schwegler K, Stamm M, Spindler A, Bricman R, Buddeberg C, Schmid C, Boehler A, Klaghofer R Tags: Anxiety Stress Coping Source Type: journals

Social comparison as a predictor of changes in burnout among nurses.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study addressed the question whether the affect evoked by social comparisons and individual differences in social comparison orientation (SCO) may predict the development of burnout over a period of one year. The participants were 93 nurses (25 males and 68 females) who filled out a questionnaire twice, with an interval of about one year. Comparisons with others performing better than oneself (upward comparisons) were reported to occur more often, to evoke more positive affect, and to invoke less negative affect than comparisons with others performing worse than oneself (downward comparisons). Those who responded at T...
Source: Anxiety, Stress, and Coping - May 21, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Buunk AP, Zurriaga R, Peiro JM Tags: Anxiety Stress Coping Source Type: journals

Effects of anxiety on handgun shooting behavior of police officers: a pilot study.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The current pilot study aimed at providing an initial assessment of how anxiety influences police officers' shooting behavior. Seven police officers participated and completed an identical shooting exercise under two experimental conditions: low anxiety, against a non-threatening opponent, and high anxiety (HA), against a threatening opponent who occasionally shot back using colored soap cartridges. Measurements included shooting accuracy, movement times, head/body orientation, and blink behavior. Results showed that under HA, shooting accuracy decreased. Underlying this degradation of performance, participants acted f...
Source: Anxiety, Stress, and Coping - May 21, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Nieuwenhuys A, Oudejans RR Tags: Anxiety Stress Coping Source Type: journals

Sense of coherence and socio-demographic characteristics predicting posttraumatic stress symptoms and recovery in the aftermath of the Second Lebanon War.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study investigated the role of sense of coherence (SOC) as a mediator between demographic attributes of individuals (gender, age, economic situation, and exposure to traumatic events during the war) and two war outcomes (postwar stress symptoms and perceived posttraumatic recovery). The participants were 870 adults (ages ranged between 20 and 85), who were affected by the Second Lebanon War and were evacuated from their home town. They were administered the research questionnaire approximately one year after this war. Path analysis indicated the following: gender, age, economic situation, and exposure were significant...
Source: Anxiety, Stress, and Coping - May 18, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kimhi S, Eshel Y, Zysberg L, Hantman S, Enosh G Tags: Anxiety Stress Coping Source Type: journals

Event-exposure stress, coping, and psychological distress among New York students at six months after 9/11.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study examines if event-exposure stress has a significant effect on the latent mediating factors of problem-based coping, emotion-based coping, and intrinsic religious motivation, as well as on psychological distress. The study used a single-group correlational design. Data were collected from graduate social work students (N=642) in the New York metropolitan area six months after September 11, 2001. In a structural equation model, event-exposure stress was found to be positively related to problem-focused coping. The model also supported that event-exposure stress had a positive direct effect on psychological distres...
Source: Anxiety, Stress, and Coping - May 11, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Heyman JC, Brennan M, Colarossi L Tags: Anxiety Stress Coping Source Type: journals

Role identification, community socio-economic status demands, and stress outcomes in police officers.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study applied the job demands-resources and conservation of resources models to police work, with the specific aim to examine the possible interaction between objectively measured work demands (community socio-economic status (SES)) and personal resources (role identification) on stress-related outcomes. A total of 89 officers from 10 small, suburban police departments (five from high SES areas and five from low SES areas) completed surveys that focused on community SES demands and role identification as factors that potentially influence positive and negative psychological outcomes. Results indicated that community (...
Source: Anxiety, Stress, and Coping - April 29, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Grawitch MJ, Barber LK, Kruger MH Tags: Anxiety Stress Coping Source Type: journals

Patterns of emotion regulation and psychopathology.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Emotion regulatory strategies such as higher expressive suppression and lower cognitive reappraisal may be associated with increased psychopathology (Gross & John, 2003). Yet, it is unclear whether these strategies represent distinct cognitive styles associated with psychopathology, such that there are individuals who are predominantly "suppressors" or "reappraisers." Using cluster analysis, we examined whether women with and without exposure to potentially traumatic events evidence distinct patterns of emotion regulation frequency, capacity, suppression, and cognitive reappraisal. Four patterns emerged: high regul...
Source: Anxiety, Stress, and Coping - April 19, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Eftekhari A, Zoellner LA, Vigil SA Tags: Anxiety Stress Coping Source Type: journals

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Source: Anxiety, Stress, and Coping - April 13, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Veeraraghavan V Tags: Anxiety Stress Coping Source Type: journals

Using stressful films to analyze risk factors for PTSD in analogue experimental studies - which film works best?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
To understand mental disorders, analogue paradigms provide an indispensable contribution. In posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the stressful film paradigm is a frequently used analogue approach: Films depicting traumatic events are shown to non-clinical participants in order to elicit stress responses analogue to responses to traumatic events in real life. Previous studies used a large variety of films, which is problematic with regard to the comparability of results. The main goal of this study was to identify a film clip that (a) consistently provokes stress reactions and (b) provokes reactions that are as simila...
Source: Anxiety, Stress, and Coping - April 6, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Weidmann A, Conradi A, Groger K, Fehm L, Fydrich T Tags: Anxiety Stress Coping Source Type: journals

Coping with displacement from Hurricane Katrina: predictors of one-year post-traumatic stress and depression symptom trajectories.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study examined predictors of symptom trajectories of 93 adult survivors of Hurricane Katrina who were displaced and relocated to Colorado. Survivors were interviewed within six months of the hurricane and then again six months later. Four symptom trajectories were identified for clinical levels of depression and post-traumatic stress: resilient, recovered, delayed onset, and chronic. High levels of adaptive coping and coping efficacy characterized the resilient groups and low levels of both characterized the chronic groups. The recovered groups were characterized by low levels of adaptive coping coupled with high copi...
Source: Anxiety, Stress, and Coping - April 3, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Wadsworth ME, Santiago CD, Einhorn L Tags: Anxiety Stress Coping Source Type: journals

PTSD symptoms and dominant emotional response to a traumatic event: an examination of DSM-IV Criterion A2.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
To qualify for a diagnosis of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition (DSM-IV) requires that individuals report experiencing dominant emotions of fear, helplessness, and horror during the trauma (Criterion A2). Despite this stipulation, traumatic events can elicit a myriad of emotions other than fear, such as anger, guilt or shame, sadness, and numbing. The present study examined which emotional reactions to a stressful event in a college student sample are associated with the highest levels of PTSD symptoms. Our results suggest mixed support for t...
Source: Anxiety, Stress, and Coping - March 31, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Hathaway LM, Boals A, Banks JB Tags: Anxiety Stress Coping Source Type: journals

Perceived stress and everyday memory complaints among older adult women.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study highlights that perceived stress, like depression and anxiety, is a psychological factor that influences the appraisal of cognitive ability; however, larger and more heterogeneous samples will be needed to better understand the multifactorial nature of memory complaints in older adulthood. PMID: 19337885 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Anxiety, Stress, and Coping)
Source: Anxiety, Stress, and Coping - March 31, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Potter GG, Hartman M, Ward T Tags: Anxiety Stress Coping Source Type: journals

The effects of gender, long-term need for recovery and trait inhibition-rumination on morning and evening saliva cortisol secretion.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The aim of this study was to investigate the long-term effects of need for recovery from work and trait rumination on saliva cortisol secretion. The sample consisted of 76 white-collar workers, 52 men and 24 women who had previously provided baseline data four years earlier and volunteered to participate in the present study. In the present study, saliva cortisol secretion was measured over seven consecutive days, on awakening, and at 10 p.m. No relationships were found between the independent variables and morning saliva cortisol levels. High trait rumination at baseline, however, was significantly related to higher e...
Source: Anxiety, Stress, and Coping - March 31, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Rydstedt LW, Cropley M, Devereux JJ, Michalianou G Tags: Anxiety Stress Coping Source Type: journals

Social support reduces resting cardiovascular function in women.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Social support is believed to benefit cardiovascular health in part by buffering recipients from life stress. Classically, this has been investigated by exploring the relationship between support and cardiovascular reactivity to laboratory stress. Such research customarily emphasizes stress responses and downplays the relevance of resting cardiovascular levels. However, it is now appreciated that resting cardiovascular function is associated with disease risk independently of reactivity. Moreover, such mechanisms are known to be relevant to female members of the population, despite the fact that much previous research ...
Source: Anxiety, Stress, and Coping - March 31, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Hughes BM, Howard S Tags: Anxiety Stress Coping Source Type: journals

Experimentally testing Taylor's stress, coping and adaptation framework.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study tested the effects of the event (minor, major), primary appraisal (benign, severe), coping (problem-focused coping (PFC) versus emotion-focused coping), external resources (with/without social support), and internal impediments (hostility), on estimated distress (dependent variable) in written imagined stressful daily scenarios. All components except hostility were experimentally manipulated within subjects in the scenarios. The scenarios were rated by 281 Dutch students. The variables event, appraisal, and social support significantly and independently affected estimated distress. Event and appraisal synergisti...
Source: Anxiety, Stress, and Coping - March 30, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gidron Y, Nyklicek I Tags: Anxiety Stress Coping Source Type: journals

Strategies used by psychotic individuals to cope with life stress and symptoms of illness: a systematic review.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Psychological models of schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders suggest that poor coping responses to life stressors and to symptoms of illness is central to their development and maintenance and influences recovery. These models are widely accepted and inform psychological treatments for psychotic disorders. In this paper, 85 studies that explore how individuals with established psychotic disorders cope with symptoms associated with their illness, and with independent life events and stressors are comprehensively reviewed. Reviewed research included cross-sectional and longitudinal investigations of self-initiated...
Source: Anxiety, Stress, and Coping - March 30, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Phillips LJ, Francey SM, Edwards J, McMurray N Tags: Anxiety Stress Coping Source Type: journals

The durability of beneficial health effects associated with expressive writing.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study examined the durability of benefits associated with expressive writing. Sixty-eight college undergraduates completed measures of physical and psychological health at the beginning of their first year and were then randomized to either an expressive writing or a control writing condition. Changes in physical health, psychological health (i.e., depression, stress, and anxiety), and academic performance were assessed two, four, and six months later. Findings indicated that participants assigned to the expressive writing condition reported less depression symptom severity at the two-month follow-up assessment relati...
Source: Anxiety, Stress, and Coping - March 30, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sloan DM, Feinstein BA, Marx BP Tags: Anxiety Stress Coping Source Type: journals

Belief in a just world and well-being of bullies, victims and defenders: A study with Portuguese and Indian students.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Previous findings characterize the belief in a just world (BJW) as a valuable resource for maintaining positive well-being and assimilating injustice. The present cross-sectional study applies just world research to school bullying and tested the hypotheses that the personal BJW is positively correlated with subjective well-being, here particularly school distress. In this paper the generalizability of this association is tested in victims, bullies, and defenders, and across gender and also two countries with different cultures, Portugal and India. We will test if BJW can best be interpreted as a personal resource (mai...
Source: Anxiety, Stress, and Coping - March 30, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Correia I, Kamble SV, Dalbert C Tags: Anxiety Stress Coping Source Type: journals

The association between dopamine D4 receptor exon III polymorphism and intensity of PTSD symptoms among flood survivors.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study analyzed the association between the variable number tandem repeat (VNTR) DRD4 exon III polymorphism and intensity of PTSD symptoms in 107 (57 women and 50 men) survivors of a flood aged 14-62. Intensity of PTSD symptoms was measured using PTSD-F and PTSD-C questionnaires. Multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA) was conducted to test the main and interactive effects of genotype and level of trauma exposure. Participants with at least one copy of the DRD4 long allele (seven or eight repetitions) had more intense PTSD symptoms on the Avoidance/Numbing scale (Cohen's f=.22) and the Total Scale (Cohen's f=.2) ...
Source: Anxiety, Stress, and Coping - March 28, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dragan WL, Oniszczenko W Tags: Anxiety Stress Coping Source Type: journals

The validity of self-report assessment of avoidance and distress.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Both distress and behavioral avoidance have been implicated in the development and maintenance of many forms of psychopathology. However, it is still unclear whether these constructs can be distinguished, or whether both can independently explain comorbid psychopathology (CP) as they are normally assessed (via self-report methods). To help address these questions, we assessed distress and avoidance in relation to phobic situations via structured interview in a sample of college students (N=385) and a sample of psychiatric outpatients (N=288). Various types of psychopathology were also assessed. Structural equation mode...
Source: Anxiety, Stress, and Coping - March 26, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gamez W, Kotov R, Watson D Tags: Anxiety Stress Coping Source Type: journals

Emotion regulation strategies as mediators of the association between level of attachment security and PTSD symptoms following trauma in adulthood.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Although, a link between attachment and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms has been established, the mechanisms involved in this link have not yet been identified. Furthermore, attachment has been systematically measured by self-report questionnaires, which are prone to perceptual bias. The first goal of this study was to examine the link between PTSD symptoms and attachment security level, as measured with a security index created from the Adult Attachment Projective interview. The second goal was to test emotion regulation strategies as mediators of this link. Participants were recruited in hospital emerge...
Source: Anxiety, Stress, and Coping - March 26, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Benoit M, Bouthillier D, Moss E, Rousseau C, Brunet A Tags: Anxiety Stress Coping Source Type: journals

Efficacy of a brief school-based program for selective prevention of childhood anxiety.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study evaluates whether a brief school-based selective prevention program reduces AS and anxious and depressive symptoms in children and youth. Participants scoring high in AS but without any current psychopathological disorder were selected from a sample of 613 individuals (61% female, 11-17 years old) and randomly assigned to the prevention program (n=47) or to a waiting-list control (WLC) (n=45) group. A normal control (NC) group (n=53) was also included. After treatment, a significant decrease in AS and in anxiety and depressive symptoms were observed in both prevention and WLC groups. Differences between experime...
Source: Anxiety, Stress, and Coping - March 26, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Balle M, Tortella-Feliu M Tags: Anxiety Stress Coping Source Type: journals

How obstacles and facilitators predict academic performance: the mediating role of study burnout and engagement.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Most people would agree with the maxim that "success breeds success." However, this is not the whole story. The current study investigated the additional impact of psychosocial factors (i.e., performance obstacles and facilitators) as well as psychological well-being (i.e., burnout and engagement) on success (i.e., academic performance). More specifically, our purpose was to show that, instead of directly affecting future performance, obstacles and facilitators exert an indirect effect via well-being. A total of 527 university students comprised the sample and filled out a questionnaire. We obtained their previous and ...
Source: Anxiety, Stress, and Coping - March 26, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Salanova M, Schaufeli W, Martinez I, Breso E Tags: Anxiety Stress Coping Source Type: journals

Social anxiety and the experience of positive emotion and anger in everyday life: an ecological momentary assessment approach.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A few recent studies have found evidence showing that social anxiety is associated with diminished positive affect and elevated anger. However, prior work has relied on trait self-report measures of global positive mood or anger. In this preliminary study, we examined how trait social anxiety relates to moment-to-moment positive and angry emotional states as people navigate through their natural environment in a given day. Of additional interest was whether any associations were limited to social situations or were evident more broadly in non-social situations as well. For 14 days, 38 non-clinical community adults carr...
Source: Anxiety, Stress, and Coping - March 26, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kashdan TB, Collins RL Tags: Anxiety Stress Coping Source Type: journals

The effect of perceived stress on the relationship between perfectionism and burnout in coaches.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The effects of perceived stress (PS) on the relationship between adaptive and maladaptive forms of perfectionism and burnout were examined. Smith's (1986) stress appraisal model and Kelley, Eklund, and Ritter-Taylor's (1999) model of coach burnout were used to test two models of burnout in a sample of college coaches (N=177). The results indicated that there is an indirect effect of self-evaluative perfectionism (i.e., maladaptive form of perfectionism) on burnout through PS as well as a significant direct link to burnout, accounting for 56% of its variance. In contrast, conscientious perfectionism (CP) (i.e., adaptive...
Source: Anxiety, Stress, and Coping - March 26, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tashman LS, Tenenbaum G, Eklund R Tags: Anxiety Stress Coping Source Type: journals

The Core Beliefs Inventory: a brief measure of disruption in the assumptive world.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Stressful events that disrupt the assumptive world can force people to make cognitive changes to accommodate these highly stressful experiences. As fundamental assumptions are reestablished, many people report changes and experiences that reflect posttraumatic growth (PTG). The present research describes the development of the Core Beliefs Inventory (CBI), a brief measure of disruption of the assumptive world developed for use in applied research and clinical settings. Three studies, two using college samples (Study 1, n=181 and Study 2, n=297 time 1; 85 time 2) and the third using leukemia patients (Study 3, n=70 time...
Source: Anxiety, Stress, and Coping - March 26, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Cann A, Calhoun LG, Tedeschi RG, Kilmer RP, Gil-Rivas V, Vishnevsky T, Danhauer SC Tags: Anxiety Stress Coping Source Type: journals

Coping strategies among adolescents: Israeli Jews and Arabs facing missile attacks.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The study examined the use of coping strategies among Israeli Jewish and Arab adolescents who faced missile attacks during the Second Lebanon War. We further explored the role of ethnicity, gender and age in explaining psychological distress and the ways in which different coping strategies relate to health outcomes in the two ethnic groups. Data were gathered from 303 Israeli adolescents (231 Jews and 72 Arabs), 12-19 years old, who filled out self-reported questionnaires among which were demographics; Adolescent Coping Scale, Scale of Psychological Distress (SPD), state anxiety and state anger. Both Jewish and Arab a...
Source: Anxiety, Stress, and Coping - March 26, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Braun-Lewensohn O, Sagy S, Roth G Tags: Anxiety Stress Coping Source Type: journals

Young children's self-reports of coping with fears and perceived effectiveness of coping strategies in the South African context.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This descriptive study attempted to explore the coping strategies and perceived effectiveness of these strategies in response to self-reported fears among a sample of young South African children: 72 girls and 80 boys (mean age six years, two months, SD=5.32 months, range; 5-7 years). Differences in children's coping strategies and the perceived effectiveness of these strategies with respect to socio-economic (SE) status were also assessed. Self-report data on coping strategies and the perceived effectiveness of these strategies were collected by means of individual semi-structured interviews in conjunction with childr...
Source: Anxiety, Stress, and Coping - March 26, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Loxton H Tags: Anxiety Stress Coping Source Type: journals

Hurricane Katrina's impact on the mental health of adolescent female offenders.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study draws on Conservation of Resources (COR) stress theory to examine the impact of a specific trauma, Hurricane Katrina, relative to other adverse life events, on the mental health of female adolescent offenders in Mississippi. Teenage girls (N=258, 69% African American) were recruited from four juvenile detention centers and the state training school. Participants were interviewed about the occurrence and timing of adverse life events and hurricane-related experiences and completed a self-administered mental health assessment. Hierarchical linear regression models were used to identify predictors of anxiety and de...
Source: Anxiety, Stress, and Coping - March 18, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Robertson AA, Morse DT, Baird-Thomas C Tags: Anxiety Stress Coping Source Type: journals

Predicting posttraumatic growth among hurricane Katrina survivors living with HIV: the role of self-efficacy, social support, and PTSD symptoms.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The study tested the model of adaptation after trauma by Benight and Bandura (2004) indicating that posttraumatic recovery may be predicted directly by coping self-efficacy (CSE) and indirectly by social support. These relations were investigated in the context of posttraumatic growth (PTG) among Hurricane Katrina survivors living with HIV. Additionally, it was hypothesized that among individuals with more intensive Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptoms, those with strong CSE would experience the strongest PTG. Cross-sectional data were collected among 90 patients with HIV who reinitiated care at the HIV outpat...
Source: Anxiety, Stress, and Coping - March 18, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Cieslak R, Benight C, Schmidt N, Luszczynska A, Curtin E, Clark RA, Kissinger P Tags: Anxiety Stress Coping Source Type: journals

Burnout during a long-term rehabilitation: comparing low burnout, high burnout - benefited, and high burnout - not benefited trajectories.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study (N=85) aimed at identifying burnout trajectories in terms of benefit, that is, subgroups of clients who share similar mean levels and changes in burnout during a one-year rehabilitation intervention (17 days in total) with a six-month follow-up. After identifying the burnout trajectories, the relations of the trajectories with factors describing the clients, antecedents, and consequences of burnout during the one-year intervention were examined. Three burnout trajectories were identified by growth mixture modeling: (a) low burnout (n=39), (b) high burnout - benefited (n=29), and (c) high burnout - not benefited ...
Source: Anxiety, Stress, and Coping - March 13, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Hatinen M, Kinnunen U, Makikangas A, Kalimo R, Tolvanen A, Pekkonen M Tags: Anxiety Stress Coping Source Type: journals

Explaining worker strain and learning: how important are emotional job demands?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study examined the added value of emotional job demands in explaining worker well-being, relative to the effects of task characteristics, such as quantitative job demands, job control, and coworker support. Emotional job demands were expected to account for an additional proportion of the variance in well-being. Cross-sectional data were obtained from 11,361 female Dutch home care employees. Hierarchical stepwise regression analysis demonstrated that low control, low support and high quantitative demands were generally associated with lower well-being (as measured in terms of emotional exhaustion, dedication, professi...
Source: Anxiety, Stress, and Coping - March 2, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Taris TW, Schreurs PJ Tags: Anxiety Stress Coping Source Type: journals

Testing personality-coping diatheses for negative and positive affect: a longitudinal evaluation.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The current study examined how trait-consistent coping and trait-inconsistent coping were predictive of negative and positive affect. It was hypothesized that coping behaviors (e.g., social support) that were consistent with dimensions of the Five-Factor Model (FFM) of Personality (e.g., Extraversion) would be associated with positive affect, whereas traits that were inconsistent would be associated with negative affect. Longitudinal data from 673 military recruits revealed that dimensions of the FFM moderated the relationship between coping and affect. Individuals either high on Neuroticism, high on Agreeableness, or ...
Source: Anxiety, Stress, and Coping - March 2, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Roesch SC, Aldridge AA, Vickers RR, Helvig LK Tags: Anxiety Stress Coping Source Type: journals

Anxiety and mood changes associated with acute cycling in persons with multiple sclerosis.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We examined changes in state anxiety (SA) and Total Mood Disturbance (TMD) associated with acute exercise in persons with multiple sclerosis (MS) and the influence of trait anxiety (TA) on the magnitude of the changes. Females (N=25) with MS were separated into subgroups of higher trait anxiety (HTA, n=8) or lower trait anxiety (LTA, n=17). Participants completed an incremental exercise test to measure [image omitted] , and on a separate day completed the trait and state portions of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI; Forms Y1 and Y2) and the Profile of Mood States (POMS) before performing 20 minutes of cycle ergometr...
Source: Anxiety, Stress, and Coping - March 2, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Petruzzello SJ, Snook EM, Gliottoni RC, Motl RW Tags: Anxiety Stress Coping Source Type: journals

Examination of vigilance and disengagement of threat in social anxiety with a probe detection task.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Selective attention for threat faces in social anxiety is commonly measured with a probe detection task. Various studies that have used this task show socially anxious individuals exhibit selective attention for threat faces (Mogg & Bradley, 2002; Mogg, Philippot, & Bradley, 2004b; Pishyar, Harris, & Menzies, 2004). Selective attention for threat when measured with a probe detection task is interpreted as an attentional shift toward threat ("vigilance"). Yet, there is data that show socially anxious individuals may have difficulty in shifting their attention away from threat ("disengagement"; Amir, Elias, K...
Source: Anxiety, Stress, and Coping - March 2, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Klumpp H, Amir N Tags: Anxiety Stress Coping Source Type: journals

Poverty and involuntary engagement stress responses: examining the link to anxiety and aggression within low-income families.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Families living with the burdens of poverty-related stress are at risk for developing a range of psychopathology. The present study examines the year-long prospective relationships among poverty-related stress, involuntary engagement stress response (IESR) levels, and anxiety symptoms and aggression in an ethnically diverse sample of 98 families (300 individual family members) living at or below 150% of the US federal poverty line. Hierarchical Linear Modeling (HLM) moderator model analyses provided strong evidence that IESR levels moderated the influence of poverty-related stress on anxiety symptoms and provided mixed...
Source: Anxiety, Stress, and Coping - March 2, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Wolff BC, Santiago CD, Wadsworth ME Tags: Anxiety Stress Coping Source Type: journals

On the dimensionality of the Proactive Coping Inventory: 7, 5, 3 factors?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Discussion focuses on the interpretability of the 3-factor model of the PCI, and particularly in relation to traditional measures of reactive coping. PMID: 19253071 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Anxiety, Stress, and Coping)
Source: Anxiety, Stress, and Coping - February 27, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Roesch SC, Aldridge AA, Huff TL, Langner K, Villodas F, Bradshaw K Tags: Anxiety Stress Coping Source Type: journals