Dedication This dissertation is dedicated to Robert A. Brown. Your support has made my work possible. Your generosity, patience, kindness, and wisdom continue to teach me what is important in life. I hope to have the opportunity to give to others a fraction of what you have given to me. Thanks dad. This work was conducted in an effort to better understand the role that activational mechanisms i...

The relation between cognitive self-consciousness and meta-worry, and their association with symptoms of worry and obsessional thoughts were examined. 53 undergraduate students completed the expanded version of the Cognitive Self-consciousness Scale, the Meta-worry subscale of the Anxious Thoughts Inventory, the Penn State Worry Questionnaire, and the Padua Inventory-Revised. Analysis showed th...

Worry, the anticipation of future threat, is a common feature of anxiety and mood psychopathology. Considerable research has examined the latent structure of worry to determine whether this construct reflects a dimensional or taxonic structure. Recent taxometric investigations have provided support for a unidimensional structure of worry; however, the results of these studies are limited in tha...

background and purpose: worry, as a cognitive domain to anxiety, defined as a central feature of some clinical disorders. worry plays an important role in psychopathology. among general population, higher education students are experiencing worry in several domains, which can influence on their educational performance and social activities. methods: in this study worry domains of zabol public u...

Researchers have described 2 types of worriers, normal and pathological, who differ in the frequency, intensity, and controllability of their worry experiences. Although normal and pathological worry are generally treated as separate though related phenomena, no study has tested for separateness against the alternative hypothesis that all worry exists along a single dimension. In the present st...

BACKGROUND Little is known about why men fail to seek medical help for urological symptoms. AIM This study was designed to document men's perceptions of urinary symptoms and to increase understanding of health-care-seeking behaviour. METHOD A stratified random sample of men aged 40-79 years was drawn from the age-sex register of a health centre in Central Scotland. Two hundred men were inte...

Although women who carry BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations have up to an 85% lifetime risk of breast cancer, the majority choose to forego prophylactic mastectomy, which has been proven to markedly lower breast cancer mortality, and opt for lifelong intensive surveillance. Whether surveillance lowers breast cancer mortality in these women is unknown. However, in a formal survey of 34 of these women, 82%...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Worry is predominantly a verbal-linguistic process with relatively little imagery. This study investigated whether the verbal nature of worry contributes to the maintenance of worry by enhancing attention to threat. It was hypothesised that verbal worry would lead to greater attentional bias to threat than imagery-based worry. METHODS Fifty high-worriers were randoml...