Both worry and metacognitive beliefs have been found to be related to the development of anxiety, but metacognitive theory (Wells and Matthews, 1994; Wells, 2009) suggest that metacognitive beliefs may play a more prominent role. The aim of the present prospective study was to examine whether worry, metacognitive beliefs or the interaction between worry and metacognitive beliefs, were the best ...

Although separate lines of behaviorally oriented pain research have drawn attention to the importance of pain catastrophizing and trait worry, little is known about how they work together to influence aspects of chronic pain. Integrating pain research with the broader anxiety, cognitive science, and learning literature, we hypothesized that the process (vs. content) of worry influences pain thr...

The Intolerance of Uncertainty Model (IUM) of Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) attributes a key role to Intolerance of Uncertainty (IU), and additional roles to Positive Beliefs about Worry (PBW), Negative Problem Orientation (NPO), and Cognitive Avoidance (CA), in the development and maintenance of worry, the core feature of GAD. Despite the role of the IUM components in worry and GAD has be...

ôbjective: self-efficacy beliefs determine how people feel, think, motivate themselves and behave. regarding to similar findings it is supposed that concept of self efficacy has a general role on mental health. the present study focused on examining the relationships between self-efficacy and symptoms of depression, anxiety, worry and social avoidance in a large sample of normal students (n=549...

aim and background: in this study we examined the efficacy of unified transdiagnostic treatment in reduction of women with generalized anxiety disorder pathological symptoms. methods and materials: in the present study we used non-congruent multiple baseline experimental single case study design. three women with generalized anxiety disorder (gad) were selected  from patients of tabriz two coun...

Background & Objective: People with Illness Anxiety Disorder experience excessive worry and in this regard, they have a lot in common with Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Emotion Regulation Therapy (ERT) is a multifaceted and integrated treatment that is widely used for Generalized Anxiety Disorder and its effectiveness in anxious factors has been established in many studies. The aim of the pres...

objective: the present study aimed to explore the relationship between worry and obsessive compulsive symptoms. we examined the correlations between the padua inventory (pi) and the penn state worry questionnaire (pswq) to further explore the distinctiveness of the pi. method: seventy-five subjects (n=40 male, n= 35 female) were selected from hafez hospital (iran) for this study: the subjects i...

background: thus study aimed to test the hypothesis that positiveemotion can quell or undo the lingering worry and ruminationfollowing induced negative emotion.methods: 32 female students in grade 1 of high school wererandomly recruited and assigned in two experimental and controlgroups. they completed questionnaires in a pretest that are listedherewith: (1) rumination questionnaire; (2) two sc...