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Showing 1 to 20 of 94 for “"phobia"”.
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School phobia: In search of a syndrome
… regarding school attendance of which school phobia is the most extreme form. A literature cull identified features believed to typify the school phobics pattern of anxiety and these were included in a battery of instruments administered to a random sample of 225 boys and 261 girls between the …
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Imagery and the self in social phobia
… self-images in the maintenance of social phobia. Although evidence suggests that in social phobia these images influence some cognitive, affective and behavioural responses in social situations, it is unclear how they exert their effect. The literature review examines the proposition that …
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Quality of Life in Young Adults with Specific Phobia
… current study examined the effects of specific phobia on an individual's quality of life (QOL) and life satisfaction. To that end, 29 individuals with DSM-IV diagnoses of specific phobia and 30 control participants with no current diagnosable psychopathology completed several widely utilized …
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Indirect measures of associations and psychopathology: applications to Spider Phobia
… approach to reflect fear associations in phobia indirectly. At this point, the use of indirect measures is still at its beginning, and requires intensive methodological and theoretical efforts. These paradigms, however, may become useful for possible implications in psychopathology and …
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Workplace-related anxieties and workplace phobia : a concept of domain-specific mental disorders
… failure, and worries of job security. Workplace phobia is a phobic anxiety reaction with symptoms of panic occurring when thinking of or approaching the workplace, and with clear tendency of avoidance. Objectives: What characterizes workplace-related anxieties and workplace phobia as …
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An Experimental Investigation of the Functional Relationship between Social Phobia and Cigarette Smoking
Individuals with Social Phobia (SP) represent a large group with elevated rates of cigarette smoking and cessation rates lower than that of individuals without psychopathology. For individuals with SP, cigarette smoking may be used to reduce social anxiety in anticipation of and during social …
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Comorbid ADHD: Implications for Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy of Youth with a Specific Phobia
… who received an intensive CBT for a specific phobia. Method: 135 youth (ages 6-15; 52.2% female; 88.2% white) were randomized to either an individual or parent-augmented intensive CBT targeting a specific phobia. Latent growth curve models were used to explore the association of ADHD symptoms, …
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A Descriptive Study of the Similitude That Exists Between Shyness, Generalized Social Phobia, and Avoidant Personality Disorder
… conceptual similarities of generalized social phobia (GSP), avoidant personality disorder (APD), and shyness. Past research on GSP and APD, conducted by Herbert, J.D., Hope, D.A., and Bellack, A.S. (1992; Holt, C.S., Heimberg, R.G., and Hope, D.A. (1992); and Turner, S.M., Beidel, D.C., and …
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Modifying interpretation bias in adolescents with clinical levels of social phobia: An explorative case design series using Cognitive Bias Modification.
… to 17 years old) with clinical levels of social phobia symptoms completed a seven session CBM-I programme at home via the internet. The programme trained adolescents to interpret ambiguous situations in a positive manner. Imagery of oneself in the scenarios was also encouraged in an attempt to …
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Neurobiological Correlates of Anxiety and Comorbid Social Phobia in Adolescents with Major Depressive Disorder: A Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Clinical Trial
… depressive symptom response and comorbid social phobia symptoms such that participants without social phobia symptoms were more likely to show a significant reduction in depressive symptoms. Neurobiological differences in terms of functional connectivity were found, based upon anxiety severity, …
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Correlation of Dental Anxiety, Dental Phobia, and Psychological Constructs in a Sample of Patients Receiving Dental Care at Temple University Kornberg School of Dentistry
Introduction: Dental anxiety, fear, and phobia are common factors that prevent individuals from seeking dental care by delaying dental care or terminating the visit entirely, which may cause a decline in oral health-related quality of life. Dental anxiety often has a correlation with other …
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Trypophobia: An investigation of clinical features
OBJECTIVE: Trypophobia refers to the fear of, or aversion to, clusters of holes. We assessed clinical features of trypophobia, and investigated whether it showed more resemblance to a specific phobia or to obsessive-compulsive disorder. METHODS: An online survey was conducted to gather information …
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A Quantitative Neural Biomarker for Rejection Estimation: A Neuroeconomic Approach for Evaluating Theory of Mind
The clinical presentation of social phobia suggests that alterations in theory of mind (TOM) may play a systematic role in the development and maintenance of the disorder. In the current study we leverage a quantitative neuroeconmic approach to probe for neural and behavior markers of cognitive …
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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOCIAL ANXIETY AND ALCOHOL USE IN A COLLEGE STUDENT SAMPLE
Some individuals with social phobia frequently use alcohol, a behavior that may often result in the alleviation of anticipatory or performance anxiety in social situations. Reinforcement of drinking behavior may eventually lead to alcohol abuse or possibly the more severe condition of dependence. …
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Comparison of Obesity Bias, Attitudes, and Beliefs among Undergraduate Dietetic Students, Dietetic Interns, and Practicing Registered Dietitians
… No significant difference was found between fat phobia scores of students, interns, and dietitians. However, it was found that obesity bias decreased slightly as one moved through the dietetics profession. Also, Body Mass Index and fat phobia scores were negatively correlated.</p>
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Development and validation of the cognitive vulnerability schemas questionnaire for anxious youth
… schema were: (1) Generalized Anxiety and Social Phobia Schema, and (2) Separation Anxiety Schema. The measure demonstrated good psychometric properties on a range of indices of reliability and validity. Results indicated that scores on the questionnaire subscales predicted anxiety symptomology. …
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Examining the roles of fear and disgust in emetophobia
Emetophobia is a specific phobia of vomiting characterized by extreme avoidance of vomit-related stimuli. Literature on specific phobias has proposed that the emotion of disgust can play a role in some specific phobias, whereas fear and anxiety have long been considered the primary emotions …
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