Anxiety The Cognitive Perspective Essays in Cognitive Psychology Series
Auteur : Eysenck Michael W.
Theorists are increasingly arguing that it is fruitful to approach anxiety from the cognitive perspective, and the empirical evidence supports that contention. The cognitive perspective is also adopted in this book, but the approach represents a development and extension of earlier ones. For example, most previous theories and research have been based on anxiety either in clinical or in normal groups. In contrast, one of the central themes of this book is that there are great advantages to be gained from a joint consideration of clinical and normal anxiety.
Another theme of this book is that it is of major importance to establish whether or not there is a cognitive vulnerability factor which is associated with at least some forms of clinical anxiety. It is argued (with supporting evidence) that there is a latent cognitive vulnerability factor for generalized anxiety disorder which manifests itself under stressful conditions. This vulnerability factor is characterized by hypervigilance, and is found predominantly in normals high in the personality dimension of trait anxiety.
The scope of the book extends to the effects of anxiety on performance and to the phenomenon of worry, which is regarded as the cognitive component of anxiety. In both cases, a new theoretical framework is presented.
Correction notice: In chapter 4, on pages 70-71, Christos Halkiopoulos should have been credited for his role as the inventor of the Dot Probe Paradigm and for the design and execution of the experiment discussed in Eysenck, M. W. (1991 a). Trait anxiety and cognition. In C. D. Spielberger, I. G. Sarason, Z. Kulczar, and J. Van Heck (Eds.), Stress and Emotion, Vol. 14. London: Hemisphere.
Date de parution : 06-2015
15.2x22.9 cm
Thème d’Anxiety :
Mots-clés :
trait; high; anxious; cognitive; vulnerability; factor; individuals; patients; normals; low; Trait Anxiety; Cognitive Vulnerability Factor; High Trait Anxious Normals; Generalized Anxiety Disorder; High Trait Anxious Individuals; High Trait Anxious; Generalized Anxiety Disorder Patients; Trait Anxious Subjects; Trait Anxious Individuals; Non-anxious Groups; Selective Attentional Bias; Low Trait Anxious Individuals; Implicit Memory Bias; Septo Hippocampal System; Low Trait Anxious Subjects; Anxious Mood State; High Trait Anxious Subjects; Negative Memory Bias; Processing Efficiency Theory; Threatening Distractors; Explicit Memory Bias; Worry Domains Questionnaire; High Test Anxious Subjects; Sustained Information Transfer; Threatening Words