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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"cognitive avoidance"”.
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What I Don't Know Can't Hurt Me?: Cognitive Avoidance in Adults At-Risk for Depression
The current study examined cognitive avoidance in people at-risk for depression. Avoidance was assessed by performance based and self-report measures. Forty-five recovered depressed (RD) and 53 never depressed (ND) participants viewed emotional images. Approximately half of the participants in each …
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Can distress tolerance predict chronic worry? Investigating the relationships among worry, distress tolerance, cognitive avoidance, psychological flexibility, difficulties in emotion regulation, and anxiety sensitivity
<p>According to the <em>avoidance theory of worry</em> proposed by Borkovec, Alcaine, and Behar (2004), chronic worry functions as an avoidance mechanism, enabling an individual to diminish the physiological experience of anxiety by impeding emotional processing of the fear stimulus. Previous …
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The developmental continuity of a cognitive model of worry
… examined the continuity of the components of a cognitive-behavioral model of worry (i.e., Dugas et al., 1998) in an adolescent and adult cross-sectional sample of 76 participants. Assessed constructs included including intolerance of uncertainty, negative problem orientation, erroneous beliefs …
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Gender differences in worry and associated cognitive-behavioural variables
… phenomenon by looking at gender differences in cognitive variables associated with excessive worry. Intolerance of uncertainty, negative problem orientation, positive beliefs about worry, and cognitive avoidance have been linked with the generation and maintenance of worry (Dugas et al., 1998). …
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Cognitive correlates of worry in adolescents
… about worry, negative problem orientation, and cognitive avoidance. The goal of the present study is to explore the relationship between worry and these cognitive processes in an adolescent sample. Five hundred and twenty-eight participants aged 14 to 18 years completed questionnaires assessing …
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Anger and Alcohol Use: A Model of Coping Styles, Alcohol Expectancies and the Experience and Expression of Anger
… utilize less effective coping styles, such as cognitive avoidance. Alcohol abusing males also believe alcohol will increase their power and aggression. A linear regression demonstrated that males who abuse alcohol experience and express more anger than males who do not abuse alcohol. The …
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The development of a programme for the facilitation of coping skills for rural adolescents who have been exposed to community violence
… anger and used looking for guidance and cognitive avoidance as part of their coping repertoire. The programme proved to benefit the children in their coping with violence. It is recommended that for the future, larger groups of adolescents should be evaluated and programmes should be …
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Understanding Craving for Cigarettes: A Multidimensional Assessment Approach
… are presumably multidimensional, having cognitive, emotional, and physiological manifestations.</p> <p>The current study examined cigarette cravings under controlled laboratory conditions. Forty-six male and female undergraduates served as participants. Stimuli commonly associated with …
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Intrusive Memories, Coping And Outcome In Depression: Towards A Traumatic Processing Model?
… that the use of avoidant coping, specifically of Cognitive Avoidance, is significantly predictive of the maintenance of disturbing intrusions. This finding is interpreted in the context of traumatic processing models. Finally, predictions based on the conceptualisation of dissociation as an …
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The Structure and Function of Coping With Sexual Harassment
… between coping strategies that employ a cognitive or behavioral method and between coping strategies that employ an approach or avoidance focus; the four clusters described here are behavioral approach, behavioral avoidance, cognitive approach, and cognitive avoidance. These four …
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THE PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES OF THE PERSEVERATIVE THINKING QUESTIONNAIRE
… the other measures. Unexpectedly, the PTQ and Cognitive Avoidance Questionnaire demonstrated a positive correlation, suggesting the measures are tapping into similar constructs. The factor structure of the PTQ was of particular interest in the current study. Further assessment of the factors …
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An Examination of a Potential Moderator of the Relationship Between Thought Suppression and Preoccupation with Previously Suppressed Thoughts
Findings from numerous laboratory studies on thought suppression suggest that engaging in deliberate thought suppression may lead to the ironic effects of becoming preoccupied by the very same thoughts one wishes to avoid. Based on the results of these laboratory studies, a sophisticated model of …
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In the Shadow of Terror: An Exploration of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Attachment Styles and Coping Strategies: Response to the Experience of being in a Bombing Attack among Iraqi People
… Results indicated that religious coping and cognitive avoidance had a significant role to play in predicting PTSD and psychiatric comorbidity shortly after the bombing. Death anxiety was also emerged another picture in predicting PTSD and psychiatric comorbidity through mediators, namely …