Heightened embarrassability discriminates between panic disorder patients with and without agoraphobia
| Autor: | H. Swoboda, M. Amering, U. Demal, M. Krautgartner |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Personality Inventory Panic Disorder with Agoraphobia media_common.quotation_subject Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Fear of negative evaluation behavioral disciplines and activities Sex Factors Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Adaptation Psychological mental disorders medicine Humans Personality Interpersonal Relations Psychiatry Agoraphobia Demography media_common Psychiatric Status Rating Scales Panic disorder Beck Depression Inventory Panic Fear Middle Aged medicine.disease humanities Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Panic Disorder Regression Analysis Female medicine.symptom Psychology Anxiety disorder Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry. 34:195-204 |
| ISSN: | 0005-7916 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/s0005-7916(03)00049-1 |
| Popis: | Embarrassability refers to an individual's general susceptibility to becoming embarrassed and is closely linked to another personality characteristic known as fear of negative evaluation. To find out if panic disorder patients with and without agoraphobia differ in terms of embarrassability and fear of negative evaluation 100 patients with a DSM-III-R diagnosis of panic disorder with agoraphobia, 30 patients with a DSM-III-R diagnosis of uncomplicated panic disorder and 80 controls were administered the Embarrassability Scale and the 12-item version of the Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale. Depressive mood in the clinical group was assessed with the help of the Beck Depression Inventory. Comparisons between these three groups, between patients with mild, moderate, and severe phobic avoidance and between male and female subjects were carried out. Patients with agoraphobic avoidance showed significantly higher scores on both scales than patients with uncomplicated panic disorder and controls and women generally showed higher embarrassability scores than men. We conclude that heightened embarrassability is an important characteristic of patients suffering from panic disorder with agoraphobia. |
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