the aim of this study was to determine the role of attachment styles and cognitive emotion regulation strategies in adolescents' social anxiety. 430 iranian high school students (200 boys and 230 girls) were selected by multistage cluster sampling method from high schools in isfahan city and completed a battery of scales including attachment styles scale (collins and read, 1990), cognitive...

Children's understanding of the nature, origins and consequences of emotions has been intensively investigated over the last 30-40 years. However, few empirical studies have looked at the relation between emotion understanding and anxiety in children and their results are mixed. The aim of the present study was to perform a preliminary investigation of the relationships between emotion understa...

Youth with autism spectrum disorder often struggle to cope with co-occurring anxiety, depression, or anger, and having both internalizing and externalizing symptoms is a common clinical presentation. A number of authors have designed cognitive-behavioral interventions to address transdiagnostic factors related to multiple emotional problems, although none have applied this focus to youth with A...

introduction: emotion regulation therapy (ert) is an in-progress treatment developed for generalized anxiety disorder (gad) comorbid with major depressive disorder (mdd) based on ameliorating dysfunctions in emotion regulation strategies. however, ert is a newly evolved treatment and has not yet been examined among iranian samples. therefore, the aim of the present study was to evaluate the eff...

Both temperamental (e.g., behavioral inhibition) and environmental (e.g., family emotional environment) factors are associated with etiology and maintenance of anxiety; however, few studies have explored mechanisms through which these risk factors operate. The present study investigation of a developmental model of anxiety (i.e., the Emotion Dysregulation Model of Anxiety; EDMA) that hypothesiz...

objective: it seems that emotion regulation strategies and fear of positive evaluation are among psychological components. which play critical role in anxiety disorders. the present study predicted school anxiety based on emotion regulation strategies and fear of positive evaluation in female students in savadkouh iran.  methods: this study is a descriptive-correlative research. a total of 110 ...

Objectives: This study investigated the relationship between cognitive emotion regulation, emotional problems and attachment style among students in a causal model. Methods: The sample group included 285 bachelor students of Tabriz University that were selected randomly by multi-stage cluster sampling. The study instruments were revised adult attachment scale (RAAS), cognitive emotion regulatio...

Anxiety sensitivity (AS) has been linked to both pathological anxiety and substance use problems. We evaluated relations between AS and substance use situations among individuals with substance use disorders (SUDs) and concurrent DSM-IV anxiety disorders. We predicted that AS would be most strongly associated with substance use in situations involving negative emotions and interpersonal conflic...

The studies of emotion function and emotional disorders complement one another. In this article, the authors outline relations between the social functions of emotion and four psychological disorders. The authors first present a social-functional account of emotion and argue that emotions help coordinate social interactions through their informative, evocative, and incentive functions. They the...

background: emotion-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (ecbt) is a new form of cbt with emotion regulation components. this form of treatment is suggested to be employed to improve dysregulation of anxiety and other kind of emotions in anxious children.this study observed and compared the effectiveness of cbt and ecbt on anxiety symptoms; sadness and anger management;and cognitive emotion reg...