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Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment

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Searching for Specificity Between Cognitive Vulnerabilities and Mood and Anxiety Symptoms

Auteurs: Thomas A. Fergus, Kevin D. Wu

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment | Uitgave 4/2011

Abstract

Using two large nonclinical samples (N = 725), relations between five targeted cognitive variables [intolerance of uncertainty, negative problem orientation, perfectionism/certainty, responsibility/threat estimation, and importance/control of thoughts] and mood [depression] and anxiety [social anxiety, generalized anxiety, and obsessive–compulsive] symptoms were examined. Analyses provided multiple levels of specificity, including zero-order correlations, partial correlations controlling for the effects of positive and negative affect, regression analyses, and hierarchical structural modeling. Results were that (a) intolerance of uncertainty showed relative specificity to anxiety versus depression symptoms and (b) negative problem orientation was common to mood and anxiety symptoms. Although certain analyses suggested that (c) perfectionism/certainty specifically predicted generalized anxiety and (d) both responsibility/threat estimation and importance/control of thoughts were unique predictors of obsessive–compulsive symptoms, these three cognitive variables inconsistently predicted symptom scores across the two studies. Conceptual and therapeutic implications are discussed.

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Although evidence suggests that hoarding may not be a specific symptom of OCD (Wu and Watson 2005), the three OCI-R items assessing hoarding were included in the OCI-R score to be consistent with usual practice. Of note, the pattern of relations in both Study 1 and Study 2 were identical when excluding these three OCI-R items from analyses.

Group means are presented as T scores to make clearer comparisons between the current groups and other large normative groups who completed these instruments. Normative data to calculate T scores were obtained from: Hajcak et al. 2004; Holaway et al. 2006; OCCWG 2005; Radloff 1991; Robichaud and Dugas 2005a; Watson et al. 1988. The mathematical equation used for conversion of each scale score was: \( {\text{T}}\;{\text{score}} = \left[ {\left( {{M_{\text{current}}}{\text{group}} - {M_{\text{normative}}}{\text{group}}} \right)/S{D_{\text{normative}}}{\text{group}}} \right] \times 10 + 50 \). Thus, T scores have a M of 50 with a SD of 10.

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Titel: Searching for Specificity Between Cognitive Vulnerabilities and Mood and Anxiety Symptoms
Auteurs: Thomas A. Fergus
Kevin D. Wu
Publicatiedatum: 01-12-2011
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment / Uitgave 4/2011
Print ISSN: 0882-2689
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-3505
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10862-011-9245-6

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