Editorial Board
Publication date: June 2019Source: Journal of Anxiety Disorders, Volume 65Author(s): (Source: Journal of Anxiety Disorders)
Source: Journal of Anxiety Disorders - June 5, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Prevalence and Correlates of Generalized Anxiety Disorder in Singapore: Results from the Second Singapore Mental Health Study
Publication date: Available online 31 May 2019Source: Journal of Anxiety DisordersAuthor(s): Sherilyn Chang, Edimansyah Abdin, Saleha Shafie, Rajeswari Sambasivam, Janhavi Ajit Vaingankar, Stefan Ma, Siow Ann Chong, Mythily SubramaniamAbstractThe aim of this paper is to report findings on the epidemiology of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) using data from the Singapore Mental Health Study (SMHS) 2016, and draw comparisons with results from the first SMHS in 2010. Singapore residents aged 18 years and above participated in the household survey where the WHO Composite International Diagnostic Interview 3.0 was administere...
Source: Journal of Anxiety Disorders - May 31, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Sex Differences in the Etiology of Disgust Sensitivity: A Preliminary Behavioral Genetic Analysis
Publication date: Available online 27 May 2019Source: Journal of Anxiety DisordersAuthor(s): Bunmi O. Olatunji, Steven Taylor, David ZaldAbstractEvidence suggests that Disgust Sensitivity (DS) is a personality trait that may confer risk for the development of some anxiety-related disorders. To examine the origins of this trait we administered the DS subscale of the Disgust Propensity and Sensitivity Scale-Revised to 90 monozygotic and 90 dizygotic twin pairs, of which 55% were women. The DS subscale consists of two dimensions; Somatic Disgust and Ruminative Disgust. Biometrical modeling techniques were used to estimate her...
Source: Journal of Anxiety Disorders - May 28, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
“Fear guides the eyes of the beholder”: Assessing gaze avoidance in social anxiety disorder via covert eye tracking of dynamic social stimuli
Publication date: Available online 28 May 2019Source: Journal of Anxiety DisordersAuthor(s): Justin W. Weeks, Ashley N. Howell, Akanksha Srivastav, Philippe R. GoldinAbstractGaze avoidance is an important feature of social anxiety disorder (SAD) and may serve as a biobehavioral marker of SAD. The purpose of the present study was to replicate and extend findings on gaze avoidance in SAD via eye tracking during a computerized social simulation. Patients with SAD (n = 27) and a (sub)sample of demographically-matched healthy controls (HC; n = 22) completed a computerized, dynamic social simulation task involving video clips of...
Source: Journal of Anxiety Disorders - May 28, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Prospective Associations between Disgust Proneness and OCD Symptoms: Specificity to Excessive Washing Compulsions
Publication date: Available online 25 May 2019Source: Journal of Anxiety DisordersAuthor(s): Bunmi O. Olatunji, Jingu Kim, Rebecca C. Cox, Chad EbesutaniAbstractAlthough considerable evidence has linked disgust proneness (DP) to obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), few studies have examined the extent to which DP predicts OCD symptoms over time. Further, it remains unclear if DP is a risk factor for the contamination subtype of OCD specifically or if it is prospectively associated with other OCD symptom subtypes. The present study sought to address these gaps in the literature with a large sample of unselected community pa...
Source: Journal of Anxiety Disorders - May 26, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Childhood adversities and psychopathology among military veterans in the US: the mediating role of social networks
Publication date: Available online 18 May 2019Source: Journal of Anxiety DisordersAuthor(s): M. McLafferty, J. Ross, B. Waterhouse-Bradley, C. ArmourAbstractChildhood adversities can impact negatively on psychological health across the lifespan. Many military veterans have a history of adverse childhood experiences, which when combined with deployment related traumas, can lead to high levels of psychopathology. Social networks can however be protective. The current study aimed to identify typologies of childhood adversity in U.S. military veterans (n = 3,092) and explore relationships between the adversity typologies a...
Source: Journal of Anxiety Disorders - May 19, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
The Impact of Negative Attributions on the Link Between Observed Partner Social Support and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptom Severity
We examined negative attributions about partner-provided support as a moderator of the expected relation between observed support during couple discussions and PTSD symptom severity. Participants included 128 individuals from 64 heterosexual married or cohabitating couples. Per clinician-administered interview, 72 (56%) participants met subthreshold or diagnostic criteria for PTSD. Receipt of relatively more partner support was modestly associated with lower PTSD symptom severity. Negative causal attributions about partner support were not associated with the amount of support received, but were associated with higher PTSD...
Source: Journal of Anxiety Disorders - May 14, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Post-traumatic stress and cancer: Findings from a cross-sectional nationally representative sample
ConclusionTraumatic exposure and PTSD appear to be associated with cancer. The comorbid relationship between traumatic exposure, PTSD and cancer differs by cancer type and sex. (Source: Journal of Anxiety Disorders)
Source: Journal of Anxiety Disorders - May 9, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Editorial Board
Publication date: May 2019Source: Journal of Anxiety Disorders, Volume 64Author(s): (Source: Journal of Anxiety Disorders)
Source: Journal of Anxiety Disorders - May 4, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Pupil dilation to emotional expressions in adolescent social anxiety disorder is related to treatment outcome
Publication date: Available online 24 April 2019Source: Journal of Anxiety DisordersAuthor(s): Johan Lundin Kleberg, Cornelia Hanqvist, Eva Serlachius, Jens HögströmAbstractAtypical attention to potential social threats, such as emotional faces, may be one of the core mechanisms underlying social anxiety disorder (SAD). Pupil dilation is an index of locus coreuleus-noradrenergic activity, and closely linked to attention. In the present study, pupil dilation was studied in adolescents with SAD (N = 26; 22 Female) before the onset of a 12-week cognitive behavioral treatment, and in healthy controls (N = 23). Stimuli were f...
Source: Journal of Anxiety Disorders - April 24, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Self- and Other-Perceptions of Interpersonal Problems: Effects of Generalized Anxiety, Social Anxiety, and Depression
Publication date: Available online 22 April 2019Source: Journal of Anxiety DisordersAuthor(s): Ki Eun Shin, Michelle G. NewmanAbstractDespite attention on overlap and distinction between generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), social anxiety disorder (SAD), and major depressive disorder (MDD), interpersonal specificity (distinct, prototypical interpersonal features) between the disorders has been understudied. There is emerging evidence for such specificity (e.g., Erickson et al., 2016), but most studies relied on self-report, and not all studies controlled for shared variance between the disorders, complicating interpretation...
Source: Journal of Anxiety Disorders - April 24, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
An integrative review of the vigilance-avoidance model in pediatric anxiety disorders: Are we looking in the wrong place?
Publication date: Available online 19 April 2019Source: Journal of Anxiety DisordersAuthor(s): Dana Rosen, Rebecca B. Price, Jennifer S. SilkAbstractEnduring cognitive models of anxiety posit that negative biases in information processing are implicated in the etiology, maintenance, and recurrence of anxiety disorders in youth and adults. Specifically, the vigilance-avoidance model of attention is an influential hypothesis proposed to explain anxious individuals’ attentional patterns. The vigilance-avoidance model posits that anxious individuals, relative to nonanxious individuals, initially orient more quickly to threat...
Source: Journal of Anxiety Disorders - April 21, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Corrigendum to “Therapist-led and self-led one-session virtual reality exposure therapy for public speaking anxiety with consumer hardware and software: A randomized controlled trial” [J. Anxiety Disord. 61 (2) (2019) 45–54]
Publication date: Available online 17 April 2019Source: Journal of Anxiety DisordersAuthor(s): Philip Lindner, Alexander Miloff, Simon Fagernäs, Joel Andersen, Martin Sigeman, Gerhard Andersson, Tomas Furmark, Per Carlbring (Source: Journal of Anxiety Disorders)
Source: Journal of Anxiety Disorders - April 18, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Do Men and Women Arrive, Stay, and Respond Differently to Cognitive Behavior Group Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder?
Publication date: Available online 5 April 2019Source: Journal of Anxiety DisordersAuthor(s): Idan Aderka (Source: Journal of Anxiety Disorders)
Source: Journal of Anxiety Disorders - April 7, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Measuring treatment outcome in patients with anxiety disorders: A comparison of the responsiveness of generic and disorder-specific instruments
Discussion/conclusionsFor most anxiety disorder groups (i.e., SP, PD and OCD), the MASQ or BSI was equally suited as disorder-specific instruments to detect change at group level. Exceptions are GAD and PTSD. These findings suggest limited incremental information value of disorder-specific instruments over the MASQ and BSI for measuring change. (Source: Journal of Anxiety Disorders)
Source: Journal of Anxiety Disorders - April 7, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
