Background Within maintenance models of social anxiety disorder (SAD), a number of
cognitive and behavioural factors that drive the persistence of SAD have been proposed …

A fair amount of research exists on acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) as a model
and a treatment for anxiety disorders and OCD spectrum disorders; this paper offers a …

Research on social anxiety and social anxiety disorder has proliferated over the years since
the explication of the disorder through cognitive-behavioral models. This review highlights a …

Contemporary theories of psychopathology suggest a lack of perceived control as central to
the experience of negative emotion and to be particularly relevant to the development of …

Neuroticism--the tendency to experience negative emotions, along with the perception that
the world is filled with stressful, unmanageable challenges--is strongly associated with …

Objective Alexithymia is defined as the trait associated with difficulty in identifying and
describing feelings as well as poor fantasy and imagery. While alexithymia is related to …

In this cross-sectional study, we examined age-related differences in anxiety sensitivity (AS),
experiential avoidance (EA), and mindfulness among younger adult students (N= 426; M …

To investigate (a) the incremental predictive validity of experiential avoidance over and
above bordering psychological constructs (ie, rumination, worry, neuroticism and anxiety …

Individual differences in avoidant coping were hypothesized to exacerbate quality of life
impairment associated with somatization and illness anxiety symptoms; psychological …

Perceived control has been proposed to be a general psychological vulnerability factor that
confers an elevated risk for developing anxiety disorders, but there is limited research …