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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"anticipatory anxiety"”.
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An Evaluation of the Convergent Construct Validity of the Boldness Inventory of Psychopathy using a Five-Minute, 10% Carbon-Dioxide-Enriched Air Challenge
… current study examined boldness in relation to anticipatory anxiety and real-time fear in response to a CO2-enriched air challenge. It was hypothesized that boldness scores would relate negatively to (a) anticipatory anxiety ratings before the breathing challenge, (b) fear ratings taken midway …
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Effects of a Trained Therapy Dog in Child-Centered Play Therapy on Children's Biobehavioral Measures of Anxiety
This study was concerned with reducing children's anticipatory anxiety when entering mental health services for the first time. The purpose of this study was to determine whether combining two effective modalities, play therapy and animal-assisted therapy, would be effective in decreasing …
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Anticipatory processing in social anxiety
… anxious individuals often report considerable anticipatory anxiety. A recent cognitive model of social phobia (Clark & Wells, 1995) has suggested that while anticipating a social situation, socially anxious people engage in four biased cognitive processes. First, they recall and dwell on past …
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An Investigation of a Minimal-Contact Bibliotherapy Approach to Relapse Prevention for Individuals Treated for Panic Attacks
… in the BT-RP condition for panic cognitions, anticipatory anxiety, agoraphobic avoidance, and depression, but not in the WL condition. When statistically controlling for initial levels of these variables via analyses of covariance (ANCOVAs), significant post-treatment differences in the …
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Multidimensional Cardioception and Trait Anxiety: Potential Clues from Baroreflex Sensitivity
… cardioception has been largely implicated in anxiety. Three related but distinct dimensions of interoception have recently emerged in the literature: sensibility (IS), accuracy (IAC), and awareness (IAW). Divergent findings regarding interoception and anxiety may result from lacking …
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Trauma-Related Guilt: The Perspective of a Counselling Psychologist within the Military
… Guards was found pre-deployment, suggesting anticipatory anxiety, as compared with reduced levels post-deployment, suggesting subsequent relief at being back from tour and that combat experiences do not necessarily lead to psychological distress.
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Post-Injury Anxiety and PTSD Symptoms in Canadian University Athletes following a Substantial Injury: Looking to Compare Musculoskeletal Injuries and Concussions
… Living in the Aftershock: Post-injury PTSD and Anxiety, Anchored by Others: The role of Social Support, and Shifting Identities on the Sidelines: Role Change after Injury. Findings from this study showed that all participants showed symptoms of anxiety and PTSD following their injury, and …
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Individual differences in psychological adjustment to perceived abnormalities of appearance
… were both more pessimistic, and experienced more anticipatory anxiety. Using the interview sample, a third study was conducted, based on self-discrepancy theory. Poor adjusters were shown to place more value on their appearance, and have a greater discrepancy between their 'actual' and 'ideal …
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Perceptions of College Students Diagnosed with Panic Disorder with Agoraphobia: Academic, Psychosocial, and Environmental Views of their College Experience
… of large classrooms and auditoriums, and anxiety-like symptoms as the result of bright or fluorescent lighting). (3) A lack of social contacts both in and out of the classroom was a common experience. (4) While all subjects had tried medication to control their Panic Disorder, two of the …