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- Saboonchi, Fredrik, et al.
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Perfectionism and self-consciousness in social phobia and panic disorder with agoraphobia
- 1999
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Ingår i: Behaviour Research and Therapy. - 0005-7967 .- 1873-622X. ; 37:9, s. 799-808
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Social phobics were compared to patients with panic disorder with agoraphobia and normal controls on perfectionism and self-consciousness. On concern over mistakes and doubts about action, social phobics scored higher than patients with panic disorder. Social phobics also demonstrated a higher level of public self-consciousness than patients with panic disorder and when this difference was controlled for the significant differences on perfectionism disappeared. Within each patient group, however, perfectionism was more robustly related to social anxiety than was public self-consciousness, which replicates the findings of Saboonchi and Lundh [Saboonchi, F. & Lundh, L. G. (1997). Perfectionism, self-consciousness and anxiety. Personality and Individual Differences, 22, 921–928.] from a non-clinical sample. The results are discussed in terms of public self-consciousness being a differentiating characteristic of the more severe kind of social anxiety which is typical of social phobia.
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- Nilsson, Jan-Erik, et al.
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Imagery rescripting of early memories in social anxiety disorder: An experimental study
- 2012
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Ingår i: Behaviour Research and Therapy. - : Elsevier BV. - 1873-622X .- 0005-7967. ; 50:6, s. 387-392
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Abstract in UndeterminedNTRODUCTION: Evidence suggests that negative self imagery plays an important role in social anxiety disorder (SAD) as a maintaining factor, and that early memories of traumatic experiences are linked to recurrent catastrophic images. Previous research has showed that cognitive restructuring combined with imagery rescripting of these memories may affect recurrent images resulting in less imagery distress and less anxiety in social situations. The present study replicated these effects using (a) a modified treatment with imagery rescripting without cognitive restructuring, and (b) an experimental between-groups design. METHOD: Patients with SAD (N = 14) were randomised either to imagery rescripting of early memories, or to a reading task. RESULTS: Follow-up after 1 week showed that the intervention led to significant improvements in memory and image distress, and reduced fears of negative evaluation and social interaction. DISCUSSION: The results indicate that imagery rescripting is effective even without cognitive restructuring and question the importance of the latter. However, the small sample limits the strength of the conclusions. CONCLUSION: Imagery rescripting of early distressful memories may be a powerful intervention in the treatment of SAD.
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- Wikström, Jenny, et al.
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Preattentive bias for snake words in snake phobia?
- 2004
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Ingår i: Behaviour Research and Therapy. - : Elsevier BV. - 1873-622X .- 0005-7967. ; 42:8, s. 949-970
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Stroop interference and skin conductance responses (SCRs) for words related to snakes, spiders, flowers, and mushrooms were studied in a group of women (n=40) with snake phobia who were randomised to a stress or no-stress condition. The 21 low-stress snake phobics showed Stroop interference for unmasked (but not for masked) snake words, compared with 21 age- and sex-matched controls. Stroop interference was not significantly different between high-stress and low-stress snake phobics. No support for stronger SCRs for masked snake words was found in snake phobics in a lexical decision task with masked presentations of the same words. The lack of a masked Stroop interference in snake phobics suggests a possible difference in cognitive–emotional mechanisms underlying specific phobia vs. other anxiety disorders that deserves further investigation.
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- Wolgast, Martin, et al.
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Cognitive reappraisal and acceptance: an experimental comparison of two emotion regulation strategies
- 2011
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Ingår i: Behaviour Research and Therapy. - : Elsevier BV. - 1873-622X .- 0005-7967. ; 49:Online 5 October 2011, s. 858-866
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of the present study was to compare the effect of cognitive reappraisal and acceptance on subjective distress, physiological reactions and behavioral avoidance in relation to aversive emotional states elicited by film-clips. Ninety-four participants were randomized to one of three groups. The Reappraisal group was instructed to think about what they saw in a way that minimized negative emotional reactions, the Acceptance group was told to let their feelings come and go without trying to control or avoid them, while the Watch (control) group was told just to watch the film-clips. Compared to the control condition, both reappraisal and acceptance led to significant reductions of subjective distress, physiological reactions associated with aversive emotions and behavioral avoidance. On the three types of measures there were few significant differences between the Reappraisal and Acceptance groups, but when such differences existed they were to the benefit of the Reappraisal condition. In the reappraisal condition there was however a positive correlation between elicited aversive emotion and avoidance, while no such correlation existed in the acceptance condition. The results are interpreted and discussed in relation to the theories underlying reappraisal and acceptance as well as the conceptual framework for emotion regulation established by Gross (2007).
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