Evaluating Distress Tolerance and Anxiety Sensitivity as Simultaneous and Concurrent Transdiagnostic Risk Factors for Smoking Quit Problems and Perceived Barriers for Cessation
ConclusionsThe current findings help elucidate the individual effects of distress tolerance and anxiety sensitivity in one overarching smoking model, thereby refining our understanding of these transdiagnostic factors in terms of clinically-relevant smoking processes. (Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research)
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - June 15, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Development and Validation of the Revised Chinese Version of Intolerance of Uncertainty Index-A for Children: A Large-Scale Study Among Chinese Adolescents
ConclusionsThe RCIUI-A-C is a valid and reliable measurement for Chinese adolescents of different genders and ages, which allows for efficient and rapid evaluation of IU. (Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research)
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - June 12, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The Effectiveness of Interpersonal Emotion Regulation and the Role of Anxiety in Parent-adolescent Relationships
ConclusionsThe study has significant clinical implications, providing a behavioral tool to decrease distress in highly anxious individuals during the challenging times of pre-adulthood. (Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research)
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - June 9, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Emotion Dysregulation in Patients with Eating Disorders: The Role of Metacognitions and Repetitive Negative Thinking
ConclusionsAmong patients with EDs emotion dysregulation appears to be associated with the endorsement of beliefs about the need to control thoughts and worry. Beliefs about the need to control thoughts and worry could be a suitable therapeutic target to reduce emotion dysregulation among patients with EDs. (Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research)
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - June 8, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Self-Reported Worries in Young People During the COVID-19 Pandemic
ConclusionThese findings highlight the need for tailored interventions depending on the major concerns for young people of different ages, sexes, ethnicities, and SES. (Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research)
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - June 3, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The Relationship of Aversive and Appetitive Appearance-Related Comparisons with Depression, Well-Being, and Self-esteem: A Response Surface Analysis
ConclusionsThe distinct patterns of the (in-)congruence of aversive and appetitive comparisons have important research and clinical implications. (Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research)
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - June 2, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The Contribution of Attentional Bias to Negative Information to Social Anxiety-Linked Heightened State Anxiety During a Social Event
ConclusionsThese findings demonstrate that elevated trait social anxiety is characterized by an attentional bias to negative, relative to benign, information concerning an upcoming social event, and that this attentional bias statistically predicts the disproportionately elevated state anxiety that people with high trait social anxiety experience during such an event. (Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research)
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - May 26, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Investigating False Memory and Illusory Pattern Perception Bias in Schizophrenia Patients with and without Delusions
ConclusionsOur results indicated that the information-processing problem in schizophrenia exists in both the encoding and retrieval stages. Also found significant relationship between the presence of delusions and the increase in cognitive deficits. (Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research)
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - May 26, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Overgeneralization as a Predictor of the Course of Depression Over Time: The Role of Negative Overgeneralization to the Self, Negative Overgeneralization Across Situations, and Overgeneral Autobiographical Memory
ConclusionsFindings suggest that overgeneralization in depression is not a unitary construct and that different overgeneralization processes play independent and interacting roles in the course of depression. (Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research)
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - May 25, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The Role of Perceived Risk in the Relationship Between Disgust Sensitivity and COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy
ConclusionsResults suggest that individuals with elevated disgust sensitivity who also report low levels of perceived risk of contracting COVID are more likely to express vaccine hesitancy. Implications of these findings are discussed. (Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research)
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - May 24, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Beyond Logical Errors: Preliminary Evidence for the “Looming Vulnerability Distortions Questionnaire” of Cognitive-Perceptual Distortions in Anxiety
ConclusionsThese results support the idea that the LVDQ is a valid measure of cognitive-perceptual distortions associated with anxiety and indicate that it predicts unique variance in anxiety and other emotional distress not explained by a typical measure of logical errors. Clinical implications and future directions are discussed. (Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research)
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - May 21, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
An Experimental Investigation of Moral Self-Violation and Mental Contamination
ConclusionsFindings highlight the relevance of moral self-violation in the understanding and treatment of mental contamination. (Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research)
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - May 20, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Social and Adaptive Functioning Deficits in Children with Anxiety Disorders: The Buffering Effects of Effortful Control
DiscussionGreater effortful control was associated with better social/adaptive functioning and lower anxiety among anxious youth. The negative effects of anxiety on the peer relationships of clinically anxious youth were also buffered by better effortful control. Clinical implications and directions for future research are discussed. (Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research)
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - May 19, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Do Clients Learn Specific Skills from Cognitive Versus Behavioral Interventions for Depression?
ConclusionsThough both approaches produce similar skill gains, cognitive and behavioral therapeutic strategies do appear to translate into a greater development of the skills that were targeted in treatment. (Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research)
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - May 19, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Mental Health Providers ’ Knowledge of Trichotillomania and Skin Picking Disorder, and Their Treatment
ConclusionsProvider knowledge of trichotillomania and skin picking remains limited, and a need for enhanced education and training on these disorders exists. Providers indicated interest in training opportunities (e.g., workshops on diagnosis and evidence-based treatments). Implications of these findings and future directions are discussed. (Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research)
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - May 13, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
