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Showing 1 to 20 of 583 for “"Anxious"”.
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Anxious Totems
… By creating ceramic sculptural works my anxious thoughts are released. Living with anxiety is the hardest thing I do every day. Panic hits me when I first wake up, planning the day in my head; what obstacles am I going to face today? Who can I possibly run into? Getting out of the house …
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You seem anxious
This collection of stories explores gaps in human communication, the unknowability of others, and the anxiety that manifests from social experience. Many of the longer pieces are rooted in the Lake of the Ozarks, a 92-mile reservoir in rural central Missouri, where a pronounced socioeconomic divide …
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Impact of affective traits on response interference: modulations by trait negative affect, anxious arousal, and anxious apprehension
… Flanker task. They also completed measures of anxious apprehension (AP; Penn State Worry Questionnaire) and anxious arousal (AA; MASQ), known to influence attention processing. Participants identified one of two target letters (X or N) among five non-target letters arranged on a circle. …
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Cognitive Biases in Childhood Anxiety Disorders: Do Interpretive and Judgment Biases Distinguish Anxious Youth from their Non-anxious Peers?
… was to examine cognitive biases in clinically anxious children compared to normal children and to determine if cognitive biases could discriminate anxious youth from non-anxious youth. Two specific cognitive biases were the focus of the present study—interpretive biases (i.e., the tendency to …
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Social Skills among Socially Anxious Children in Iceland
… examine the nature of social skills in socially anxious children from a social learning theory perspective. The reasons why socially anxious children often perform poorly in social situations have not yet been fully resolved. Is it due to lack of social skills or are these children too inhibited …
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PARENTAL RESISTANCE IN COGNITIVE BHAVIORAL THERAPY FOR ANXIOUS YOUTH
… of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for anxious youth predicted the number of parent-reported between-session exposures completed, posttreatment outcome, and 36-week follow-up. Method: Participants (N = 272) were parents or adult caregivers of youth (age 7 to 17 years old) who received …
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Risky Decision-making among Subgroups of Socially Anxious Individuals
… that there are two distinct groups of socially anxious individuals, an avoidance-oriented, risk-averse group, and an approach-oriented, risk-taking group. Recent theoretical and empirical work suggests that social comparison information affects the extent to which non-anxious and socially …
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A multicomponent treatment programme for text-anxious elementary schoolchildren
… and examination performance, in test-anxious elementary schoolchildren. A core programme was devised, comprising three components: systematic desensitization, cognitive restructuring and informal study skills training. Two further components, one each for teachers and parents were …
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Targeting Parental Overcontrol in Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Anxious Youth
… involved in cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) for anxious youth. Results have been mixed as to whether parent CBT, family CBT, and parent interventions addressing parental anxiety or overcontrol have an added benefit over youth-focused CBT. The present study compared (a) a parent group intervention …
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Anxious impairment: exploring executive functions and anxiety in college students
… phenomena that contribute to differences in anxious and non-anxious people’s performance on tasks of vigilance and inhibition.
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Brain Electrical Activity in Infants of Depressed and Anxious Mothers
Numerous studies suggest that positive and negative emotions are associated with different patterns of cerebral hemisphere activation and that specific patterns of electroencephalographic (EEG) asymmetry may indicate risk for depression and anxiety. The extant developmental psychopathology …
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Producing Good Citizens: Literacy and Citizenship Training in Anxious Times
By examining a range of spaces where those hoping to acquire full citizenship may have encountered literacy, I investigate how citizenship and literacy have been mutually but often contradictorily implicated for often disenfranchised individuals. Literacy became a way to measure the potential …
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You and I—pronoun use and communication patterns in anxious couples
<p>Studies have identified links between anxiety and couple communication, anxiety and pronoun use as well as pronoun use and communication. The current study investigated the association between pronoun use and communication in the context of anxiety. One hundred and fifteen couples rated their …
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Anxious to detect deceit?: An empirical investigation of social defense theory
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2023-12-01
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Investigating emotional facial recognition in trait anxious individuals: an eye-tracking study
… the processing of emotional expressions in anxious individuals. The current study also utilized four intensities of emotional expressions, a new addition to anxiety literature, as well as incorporated a measure of emotional dysregulation. The task consisted of a free viewing recognition task …
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Development and validation of the cognitive vulnerability schemas questionnaire for anxious youth
… Vulnerability Schemas Questionnaire for Anxious Youth, an instrument used to measure anxiogenic schemata in youth aged 7-17 years old. Factor analyses of the scale demonstrated two empirically distinct and relatively stable dimensions of anxiogenic schema. The two identified factors of …
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Anxious Records: Race, Imperial Belonging, and the Black Literary Imagination, 1900 - 1946
This dissertation excavates the print and archive culture of diasporic and continental Africans who forged a community in Cape Town between 1900 and 1946. Although the writers I consider write after the Victorian era, I use the term "black Victorian" to preserve their own political investments in a …
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The effect of anxious affect on drinking self-efficacy in college students
… students, the present study examined the role of anxious affect on self-efficacy for avoiding heavy drinking in college students. Specifically, it was hypothesized that heavy drinking subjects who were either high or low on dispositional social anxiety would report lower levels of self-efficacy …
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Sensory and cognitive processing deficits in anxious depressed children: a neurobehavioral study
… and alternation and sequencing. As predicted, anxious-depressed subjects performed less accurately on the identification of happy, sad, and angry affective prosody in congruent and incongruent conditions, were relatively less lateralized on both dichotic listening and grip strength measures, …
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