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01-08-2014 | Original Article

Changes in Explanatory Flexibility Among Individuals with Generalized Anxiety Disorder in an Emotion Evocation Challenge

Auteurs: David M. Fresco, Douglas S. Mennin, Michael T. Moore, Richard G. Heimberg, James Hambrick

Gepubliceerd in: Cognitive Therapy and Research | Uitgave 4/2014

Abstract

Seventy-eight undergraduates, 39 with self-reported generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), completed measures of mood and explanatory flexibility (the capacity to assign causes to negative events with a balance of historical and contextual factors) prior to and directly after a musical priming challenge that consisted of listening to negatively-valenced emotional music and thinking about a personally relevant negative event. After the emotion evocation, participants also completed a measure of state emotion regulation. Despite comparable increases in negative affect, GAD analogues evidenced drops in explanatory flexibility whereas non-GAD Controls did not. Drops in explanatory flexibility among GAD analogues covaried significantly with lack of emotional clarity. Findings suggest that for individuals with GAD, emotionally evocative experiences may result in a constricted perspective when apprehending the causes for negative events. This perspective may serve to dampen arousal, but perhaps at the cost of failing to inform one’s actions with important emotional information.

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Thirty-eight participants (18 GAD Analogues) who participated in Study 3 of Mennin et al. (2005) were randomly assigned to a Neutral Music condition and listened to Tchaikovsky’s “Waltz of the Flowers” (7 min) from The Nutcracker Suite (1892/1997). We elected not to include these participants in the current study for two reasons. First, only three participants with analogue GAD and dysphoria were randomly assigned to the Neutral Music condition, thus, preventing a credible test of the dysphoria hypothesis. Second, as a follow-up to Fresco et al. (2006a), we wished to retain the ability to evaluate the role of dysphoria among individuals with GAD as it related to changes in explanatory flexibility following a mood priming challenge. Nevertheless, a comparison of the effects of the Neutral Music on explanatory flexibility was evaluated as a function of Analogue GAD status. Findings revealed a significant main effect for time [F(1,37) = 4.22, p < .05; Cohen’s f = .33] but no group by time interaction [F(1,37) = 0.96, ns; f = .15]. Specifics of this analysis are available from the corresponding author.

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Titel: Changes in Explanatory Flexibility Among Individuals with Generalized Anxiety Disorder in an Emotion Evocation Challenge
Auteurs: David M. Fresco
Douglas S. Mennin
Michael T. Moore
Richard G. Heimberg
James Hambrick
Publicatiedatum: 01-08-2014
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Cognitive Therapy and Research / Uitgave 4/2014
Print ISSN: 0147-5916
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-2819
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-014-9601-4

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