The Relative Deprivation Trap: How Feeling Deprived Relates to Symptoms of Generalized Anxiety Disorder
| Autor: | Jonah Nadler, Martin V. Day, Sandeep Mishra, Shadi Beshai |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Generalized anxiety disorder
Social Psychology media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 050109 social psychology medicine.disease_cause medicine.disease 050105 experimental psychology Trap (computing) Clinical Psychology Feeling medicine 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Relative deprivation Psychology Clinical psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology. 39:897-922 |
| ISSN: | 0736-7236 |
| DOI: | 10.1521/jscp.2020.39.10.897 |
| Popis: | Introduction: How income inequality associates with poorer mental health remains unclear. Personal relative deprivation (PRD) involves appraising oneself as unfairly disadvantaged relative to similar others and has been associated with poorer mental health and negative cognitive appraisals. As generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is associated with negative cognitive appraisals, PRD may relate to the experience of GAD and its cognitive predictors, intolerance of uncertainty (IU), positive beliefs about worry (PBW), negative beliefs about worry (NBW), and experiential avoidance (EA). Method: In two observational studies (Study 1, N = 588; Study 2, N = 301) participants completed measures of PRD, cognitive predictors and symptoms of GAD, subjective socioeconomic status (SES), self-efficacy, and self-esteem. Results: A relationship between PRD and GAD was found across studies, which was simultaneously mediated by IU and NBW. These results remained when controlling for subjective SES but were weakened when controlling for self-concept factors. Discussion: This research supports the possibility that the experience of deprivation may “trap” people in thinking patterns that contribute to anxious symptomology. |
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