Naslov
Looming cognitive style, anxiety sensitivity and anxiety as predictors of different stress coping strategies in panic disorder and non-clinical population – implications for CBT

Autori
Čuržik, Doris

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
37th STAR Book of abstracts / - Zagreb, 2016, 103-103

Skup
37th STAR CONFERENCE

Mjesto i datum
Zagreb, Hrvatska, 06.07.2016. - 08.07.2016

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
panic disorder, stress coping strategies, looming cognitive style, anxiety sensitivity and anxiety.

Sažetak
Objective: While contemporary reasearch findings indicate that individuals with panic disorder show maladaptive coping, the role of coping in the pathogenesis of panic remains unclear. In addition to anxiety sensitivity and anxiety, looming cognitive style also seems to have a role in cognitive enhancement of panic symptoms and stress reactivity. Goals: The goal of current research was to explore whether different risk factors for panic disorder contribute differently to specific coping strategies in individuals with and without panic disorder. Methods: Thirty individuals with panic disorder and thirty non-clinical participants completed Looming Maladaptive Style Questionnaire (LMSQ), Anxiety Sensitivity Index (ASI), State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) and Coping Orientation to Problems Experienced (COPE). Results: LMSQ was signifficantly related to suppression of competing activities strategy (r=.467, p<.02) in individuals with panic disorder, while it was signifficantly related to behavioral disengagement (r=.491, p<.01) and use of emotional social support (r=.383, p<.05) strategies in non-clinical participants. ASI shared no signifficant relation to any of the examined coping strategies in participants with panic disorder, while it shared signifficant relation to behavioral disengagement (r=.751, p<.01), need for emotional control (r=.431, p<.05) and alienation (r=.432, p<.05) strategies in healty participants. STAI was negatively correlated with positive reinterpretation and growth strategy in both groups, but was also corellated with behavioral disengagement, use of emotional social support, alienation and alcohol use strategies in non-clinical participants. Conclusion: Different panic disorder risk factors seem to predict different stress coping strategies in individuals with panic disorder. Furthermore, they seem to be related with a usage of a broader range of stress coping strategies in healty individuals. Therapeutic implication of these results reflects potential need for addressing the adoption of different adaptive stress coping strategies in qualitative, but also quantitative terms depending on the intensity of risk factors in individuals with panic disorder.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Psihologija

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