abstract：:The present study explores driving skills in a group of 50 media-recruited driving-fearful and 50 control drivers, all of whom were women. Participants completed an on-road practical driving assessment with a professional driving instructor. Diagnostic as well as pre-post self-report and instructor driving assessments...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Taylor JE,Deane FP,Podd JV

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Sleep disturbances are a core feature of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and are often resistant to first-line pharmacological and psychological PTSD interventions. The goal of this pilot study was to explore the effects of a very brief intervention for PTSD-related nightmares and insomnia in victims o...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Germain A,Shear MK,Hall M,Buysse DJ

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study investigated whether physical anxiety sensitivity (AS) is associated with selective attentional biases to affective stimuli in children. The dot-probe paradigm was used to examine the deployment of attention towards words pertaining to anxiety symptomatology, socially threatening words, and positive ...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Hunt C,Keogh E,French CC

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Past research has suggested that negative affect may be a causal factor for eating disordered behaviors. More specifically, research has shown that anger appears to be one aspect of negative affect that is particularly relevant in bulimic patients. Previous studies have also shown that the relationship between negativ...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Engel SG,Boseck JJ,Crosby RD,Wonderlich SA,Mitchell JE,Smyth J,Miltenberger R,Steiger H

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, a modified semantic priming paradigm was used to test whether panic patients more strongly associate catastrophes with anxiety symptoms than nonclinical subjects. Subjects named catastrophic target words (e.g. infarction) and target words neutral to anxiety themes (e.g. weekend) that followed aud...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Schneider R,Schulte D

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite epidemiological reports indicating an association between social anxiety disorder (SAD) and cannabis use disorders (CUD), there is a paucity of research exploring the nature of this relationship. The present investigation examined potential moderators of this relationship that are consistent with a tension-red...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Buckner JD,Schmidt NB,Bobadilla L,Taylor J

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite increasing attention to the phenomenon of deliberate self-harm (DSH), the literature currently lacks a unifying, evidence-based, theoretical framework within which to understand the factors that control this behavior. The purpose of the present paper is to outline such a framework-the Experiential Avoidance Mo...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Chapman AL,Gratz KL,Brown MZ

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little information exists on the contribution of psychological strengths to well-being in persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Data from other populations suggest that gratitude, defined as the positive experience of thankfulness for being the recipient of personal benefits, may have salutary effects on...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Kashdan TB,Uswatte G,Julian T

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the psychometric properties of a newly developed 20-item instrument that assesses one's anticipation of being able to change anxiety: the Anxiety Change Expectancy Scale (ACES). Study 1 evaluated the ACES in undergraduate university students, self-identified as experiencing difficulties with an...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Dozois DJ,Westra HA

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the concurrent validity of the DSM-IV scales Anxiety Problems and Affective Problems of the Youth Self-Report (YSR) in a community sample of Dutch young adolescents aged 10-12 years. We first examined the extent to which the YSR/DSM-IV scales reflect symptoms of DSM-IV anxiety disorders and DSM...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： van Lang ND,Ferdinand RF,Oldehinkel AJ,Ormel J,Verhulst FC

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactivity and habituation patterns were examined in the offspring of anxious and non-anxious parents. Although no differences emerged for magnitude of response to either fear-relevant visual or auditory stimuli, offspring of anxious parents displayed significantly more electrodermal activity during resting baseline a...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Turner SM,Beidel DC,Roberson-Nay R

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated differences in the explicit and implicit attitudes towards food and physical activities between children with obesity (n=38) and a matched control group (n=38). The implicit attitude was assessed using the Extrinsic Affective Simon Task (EAST; J. Exp. Psychol. (50) (2003) 77), a modified versio...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Craeynest M,Crombez G,De Houwer J,Deforche B,Tanghe A,De Bourdeaudhuij I

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The attempted control of intrusive, uncontrollable thoughts has been implicated in the maintenance of a range of psychological disorders. The current paper describes the refinement of the Thought Control Questionnaire Insomnia (TCQI; Behav. Cogn. Psychoth. 29 (2001)) through its administration to a sample (n=385) incl...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Ree MJ,Harvey AG,Blake R,Tang NK,Shawe-Taylor M

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the cross-sectional factorial invariance of anxiety sensitivity in an ethnically diverse sample of adolescents (n = 173; mean age 15.5 years) and young adults (n = 291; mean age 20.1 years). Research in adult and youth samples suggests that anxiety sensitivity is best understood as a hierarchical c...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Dehon C,Weems CF,Stickle TR,Costa NM,Berman SL

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is conflicting evidence pertaining to whether or not neurocognitive task performance at baseline predicts treatment response in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). In the present study, we administered a set of executive neurocognitive tests with a putative sensitivity for treatment outcome to a sample of 138 O...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Moritz S,Kloss M,Jacobsen D,Fricke S,Cutler C,Brassen S,Hand I

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A brief, cognitive-behavioral, phone-based intervention was employed with an Israeli sample experiencing anticipatory anxiety about potential war-related attacks. In this quasi-experimental controlled pilot study, the cognitive-behavioral therapy intervention (diaphragmatic breathing and a modified cognitive-restructu...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Somer E,Tamir E,Maguen S,Litz BT

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined differences between socially anxious and nonanxious individuals' ability to use effective communication skills and social skills in the context of romantic relationships. Socially anxious (n = 13) and nonanxious (n = 14) individuals and their romantic partners were videotaped while participating in...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Wenzel A,Graff-Dolezal J,Macho M,Brendle JR

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The psychometric properties of the 27-item Albany Panic and Phobia Questionnaire (APPQ) were evaluated in 1930 outpatients with DSM-IV anxiety and mood disorders. Although prior findings of a 3-factor latent structure were upheld in several replications (Social Phobia, Agoraphobia, Interoceptive), three items failed t...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Brown TA,White KS,Barlow DH

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of emotional valence on attention have been shown to occur even when stimuli are presented outside awareness. The impact of negative valence on stimulus processing has been demonstrated to be particularly salient in anxiety. Therefore, it has been hypothesized that compared to nonanxious individuals, anxious i...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Manguno-Mire GM,Constans JI,Geer JH

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies on the link between checking and memory problems have produced equivocal results regarding a general memory deficit in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder and subclinical checkers. However, there is clear and consistent evidence that patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) show lack of confid...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Tuna S,Tekcan AI,Topçuoğlu V

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study tested the hypotheses that interpretations of voices will be associated with distress linked to auditory hallucinations, and that patients experiencing hallucinations will exhibit higher levels of negative interpretations in comparison with non-patients. METHOD:The Interpretation of Voices Invent...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Morrison AP,Nothard S,Bowe SE,Wells A

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothesis that each personality disorder (PD) is characterized by a specific set of beliefs was tested in a sample of 643 subjects, including non-patient controls, axis-I and axis-II patients, diagnosed with SCID-I and -II interviews. Beliefs of six PDs (avoidant, dependent, obsessive-compulsive, paranoid, histri...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Arntz A,Dreessen L,Schouten E,Weertman A

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ruminative self-focus on mood, problems and other aspects of self-experience can have both mal adaptive consequences, perpetuating depression, and, adaptive consequences, promoting recovery from upsetting events. Increasing evidence suggests that these contrasting effects may be explained by distinct varieties of rumi...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Watkins E

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study compared two methods for assessing binge eating and related eating disorder psychopathology in obese children and adolescents. A comparison was made between the child version of the Eating Disorder Examination (ChEDE) and the self-report version of the interview (ChEDE-Q). A total of 139 children and...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Decaluwé V,Braet C

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article traces the transformative paradigm shift in the theory and practice of personal change. Within a decade, new conceptual models, analytic methodologies and modes of treatment were created. Treatments were altered in the content, locus, and agents of change. This enterprising period also witnessed a sweepin...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Bandura A

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two research groups have raised the possibility that magical ideation may be a fundamental feature of obsessive-compulsive disorder. It has been proposed to underlie thought action fusion and superstitious beliefs. In this study, the Magical Ideation scale, the Lucky Behaviours and Lucky Beliefs scales, the Thought Ac...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Einstein DA,Menzies RG

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cognitive defusion techniques are designed to reduce the functions of thoughts by altering the context in which they occur, rather than the attempting to alter the form, frequency, or situational sensitivity of the thoughts themselves. Applied technologies designed to produce cognitive defusion seem to lead to reducti...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Masuda A,Hayes SC,Sackett CF,Twohig MP

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although research supports the efficacy of exposure therapy for PTSD, some evidence suggests that exposure is under-utilized in general clinical practice. The purpose of this study was to assess licensed psychologists' use of imaginal exposure for PTSD and to investigate perceived barriers to its implementation. A tot...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Becker CB,Zayfert C,Anderson E

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From mid-October 2001 through the end of November 2001, we collected fairly large sets of questionnaires from undergraduates at three public universities (Albany, NY, n = 507, Augusta, GA, n = 336, Fargo, ND, n = 526 ) to assess rate of acute stress disorder (ASD) and level of ASD symptoms following the September 11th...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Blanchard EB,Kuhn E,Rowell DL,Hickling EJ,Wittrock D,Rogers RL,Johnson MR,Steckler DC

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cognitions have been known to play a central role in the development, maintenance, and treatment of speech anxiety. However, few instruments are currently available to assess cognitive contents associated with speech anxiety. This report describes three studies examining the psychometric characteristics of a revised E...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Cho Y,Smits JA,Telch MJ

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three hundred participants, including volunteers from an obsessional support group, filled in questionnaires relating to disgust sensitivity, health anxiety, anxiety, fear of death, fear of contamination and obsessionality as part of an investigation into the involvement of disgust sensitivity in types of obsessions. ...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Thorpe SJ,Patel SP,Simonds LM

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, there has been increasing evidence for information-processing deficits in individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). While impairments in selective attention have been identified to be central to the symptomatology of OCD, the role that situational anxiety plays in attentional processes has not be...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Cohen Y,Lachenmeyer JR,Springer C

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study evaluated the main and interactive effects of level of smoking (cigarettes per day) and anxiety sensitivity (fear of anxiety and anxiety related sensations) in predicting panic and anxiety variables in an epidemiologically-defined sample of smokers from Moscow (n=95). The combination of high levels o...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Zvolensky MJ,Kotov R,Antipova AV,Schmidt NB

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fears among children can range from relatively innocuous fears of simple objects to significant phobias that affect youths' everyday functioning in the home, school, or community environments. This study investigated empirically derived fear profiles among American youth ages 7-19 (N=556). Based upon youths' scores on...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Schaefer BA,Watkins MW,Burnham JJ

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The harmful dysfunction (HD) analysis holds that disorder, mental or physical, requires harm, a value criterion, and dysfunction, a factual criterion referring to failure of a mechanism to perform a naturally selected function. Houts' arguments that the HD analysis does not offer an adequate factual account of dysfunc...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Wakefield JC

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to replicate Radomsky and Rachman's findings on memory bias in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), using the same procedure but an increased sample size, more specific control groups, and a full analysis of contamination attribution data. Sixteen OCD-washers, 16 OCD-checkers, 16 socia...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Ceschi G,Van der Linden M,Dunker D,Perroud A,Brédart S

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to index the long-term benefits of early provision of cognitive behavior therapy to trauma survivors with acute stress disorder. Civilian trauma survivors (n = 80) with acute stress disorder were randomly allocated to either cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) or supportive counseling (SC) - 69 ...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Bryant RA,Moulds ML,Nixon RV

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cognitive theory of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is the most widely accepted account of the aetiology and maintenance of this disorder in adults. This paper investigated whether cognitive processes were evident in a sample of children with a primary diagnosis of OCD. Using an idiographic approach, as propos...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Barrett PM,Healy LJ

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study examined the effects of negative information on the enhancement of childhood fear. A large group of normal primary school children aged between 4 and 12 years (N=285) received either negative or positive information about an unknown, doglike animal, called 'the beast'. Children's fears were assessed ...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Muris P,Bodden D,Merckelbach H,Ollendick TH,King N

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined (1). predictors for peritraumatic dissociation, (2). its relations with acute and chronic symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and (3). pathways regarding these relations in response to pregnancy loss. In early pregnancy, about 1370 women volunteers completed questionnaires for neuroti...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Engelhard IM,van den Hout MA,Kindt M,Arntz A,Schouten E

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00