Worrying, social problem-solving abilities, and social problem-solving confidence
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Social problem-solving attitudes and performance as a function of differences in trait and state worry
2023, Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental PsychiatryCitation Excerpt :First, it was predicted that people with high trait worry would self-report poorer problem orientation but not likewise perceive deficits in their rational problem-solving capacity. Results replicated research demonstrating a relationship between the tendency to endorse high levels of worry and report dysfunctional problem-solving attitudes (Belzer et al., 2002; Davey, 1994; Dugas et al., 1997; Fergus et al., 2015; Robichaud, 2007). Negative problem orientation scores of the high worry group were comparable to scores of individuals diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD; Dugas et al., 2007).
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2020, Behaviour Research and TherapyPerfectionism, worry, rumination, and distress: A meta-analysis of the evidence for the perfectionism cognition theory
2019, Personality and Individual DifferencesCitation Excerpt :Individual differences and situational characteristics have been found to be the determinants of perseverative cognition. Low self-confidence in problem-solving abilities causes worrisome thinking (Davey, 1994) and a low internal locus of control causes rumination (Watson, Clark, & Tellegen, 1984). Gender is a common factor that impacts on the ruminative response style according to the response styles theory (RST; Nolen-Hoeksema, 1987) and Nolen-Hoeksema, Girgus, and Seligman (1991) found that women are more likely to be ruminative.
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2016, Biological PsychologyCitation Excerpt :They reported that worry was associated with adaptive problem focused coping strategies and an information seeking cognitive style, whereas trait anxiety was associated with poor problem solving confidence, poor perceived personal control, responsibility for negative but not positive outcomes, the tendency to perceive events as threats, and avoidant or emotion focused coping strategies. Thus, while worry is an attempt to address problems or find solutions suitable for dealing with future threats, this problem-solving process can often be thwarted by factors associated with high levels of anxiety (Davey, 1994a, 1994b), and this can result in perseveration of a worry bout and increases in self-reported distress during a worry bout (Davey et al., 2007; Vasey & Borkovec, 1992), both of which contribute to turning adaptive worrying into pathological worrying. Most contemporary models of pathological worrying attempt to explain this psychopathology by alluding to pathological worrying as a dispositional characteristic found across a range of anxiety disorders and postulate explanations at the global level in terms of how worrying has become an endemic characteristic of an anxious individual (e.g. Burrell, Meares, Wilkinson & Freeston, 2011; Ladoucer, Talbot & Dugas, 1997; Pratt, Tallis, & Eysenck, 1997; Wells, 2007,2010).