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Worry: A cognitive phenomenon intimately linked to affective, physiological, and interpersonal behavioral processes

Borkovec, T.D., Ray, W. J., Stöber, Joachim (1998) Worry: A cognitive phenomenon intimately linked to affective, physiological, and interpersonal behavioral processes. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 22 (6). pp. 561-576. (doi:10.1023/A:1018790003416) (KAR id:19832)

Abstract

Research on worry during the past 15 years has revealed a remarkable amount of knowledge about this pervasive human phenomenon. Worry involves a predominance of verbal thought activity, functions as a type of cognitive avoidance, and inhibits emotional processing. Worry also produces not only anxious experience but depressive affect as well. Recent evidence suggests that the very private experience of worry is developmentally connected to enmeshed childhood relationships with the primary caregiver and is currently associated with significant interpersonal problems, especially those involving tendency to be overly nurturing to others. At the physiological level, worry is characterized peripherally by parasympathetic deficiency and autonomic rigidity and centrally by left-frontal activation.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1023/A:1018790003416
Additional information: National-Institute-of-Mental-Health Workshop on Cognition and Anxiety Rockville,Maryland, 22-23 September 1997
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Psychology
Depositing User: Joachim Stoeber
Date Deposited: 19 Jun 2009 13:01 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 09:58 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/19832 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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