The language of worry: Examining linguistic elements of worry models
| Autor: | Janet Woodruff-Borden, Elena M. C. Geronimi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Male endocrine system media_common.quotation_subject Theoretical models Present tense Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Anxiety Developmental psychology Interviews as Topic Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Generalised anxiety disorder Developmental and Educational Psychology Humans Control (linguistics) Language media_common Linguistics Anxiety Disorders Mother-Child Relations Future tense Case-Control Studies Child Preschool Female Worry Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Cognition and Emotion. 29:311-318 |
| ISSN: | 1464-0600 0269-9931 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/02699931.2014.917071 |
| Popis: | Despite strong evidence that worry is a verbal process, studies examining linguistic features in individuals with generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) are lacking. The aim of the present study is to investigate language use in individuals with GAD and controls based on GAD and worry theoretical models. More specifically, the degree to which linguistic elements of the avoidance and intolerance of uncertainty worry models can predict diagnostic status was analysed. Participants were 19 women diagnosed with GAD and 22 control women and their children. After participating in a diagnostic semi-structured interview, dyads engaged in a free-play interaction where mothers' language sample was collected. Overall, the findings provided evidence for distinctive linguistic features of individuals with GAD. That is, after controlling for the effect of demographic variables, present tense, future tense, prepositions and number of questions correctly classified those with GAD and controls such that a considerable amount of the variance in diagnostic status was explained uniquely by language use. Linguistic confirmation of worry models is discussed. |
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