Worry and Anxiety: Is There a Causal Relationship?

Gana, Kamel; Martin, Bettina; Canouet, Marie-Dominique

doi:10.1159/000049314

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“…The worry induction and its successful impact on subjective emotional reports differentiated anxious from non-psychiatric participants as well as characterized the pre-to post-treatment differences in our anxious participants. Consistent with the directional influence of worry on negative emotion, path analysis supports a stronger influence of worry on anxious feelings rather than the reverse direction (Gana et al, 2000). The findings support the importance of physiological data, and especially EEG gamma power, for studying affective symptoms in psychiatric patients and also to monitor fluctuations in affective symptoms expected to follow successful treatment.…”

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Worry, generalized anxiety disorder, and emotion: Evidence from the EEG gamma band

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Ray

Yamasaki

et al. 2008

Biological Psychology

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The present study examined EEG gamma (35-70 Hz) spectral power distributions during worry inductions in participants suffering from generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and in control participants without a history of psychiatric illness. As hypothesized, the EEG gamma band was useful for differentiating worry from baseline and relaxation. During worry induction, GAD patients showed higher levels of gamma activity than control participants in posterior electrode sites that have been previously associated with negative emotion. Gamma fluctuations in these electrode sites were correlated with subjective emotional experience ratings lending additional support to interpretations of negative affect. Following 14 weeks of psychotherapy, the GAD group reported less negative affect with worry inductions and the corresponding gamma sites that previously differentiated the clinical from control groups changed for the GAD patients in the direction of control participants. These findings suggest converging evidence that patients suffering from GAD experience more negative emotion during worry and that the EEG gamma band is useful for monitoring fluctuations in pathological worry expected to follow successful treatment.

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Worry, generalized anxiety disorder, and emotion: Evidence from the EEG gamma band

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Yamasaki

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Biological Psychology

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“…Moreover, individuals with GAD, a disorder defined by persistent worry, endorsed more physical symptoms of anxiety, such as trembling, restlessness, fatigue, tension, and shortness of breath compared to controls and individuals with Social Phobia (Hoyer, Becker, & Roth, 2001). Of most theoretical relevance, a path analysis examining the causal relationship between worry and anxiety suggested that worry predicted anxious arousal, whereas anxiety did not predict worry (Gana, Martin, & Canouet, 2001).…”

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Repetitive Thought and Emotional Distress: Rumination and Worry as Prospective Predictors of Depressive and Anxious Symptomatology

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Repetitive thought processes have been implicated in vulnerability to both anxiety and depression. The present study used a prospective design to examine the ability of worry and rumination to predict these two forms of emotional distress over time. Participants were 451 college students (273 females) who completed self-report measures of rumination, worry, depression, and anxiety at two time points separated by 6-8 weeks. Results indicated that both worry and rumination prospectively predicted anxiety, whereas neither thought process prospectively predicted depressive symptomatology. Although females reported elevated levels of worry and rumination compared to males, gender did not moderate any of these effects. Based on these findings, it appears that repetitive thought in the form of both worry and rumination contributes to anxiety, whereas neither thought process contributed to the development of depressive symptomatology in the present sample. Post-hoc analyses raise the possibility that previously documented associations between rumination and depression may have been partially driven by criterion contamination between measures of these constructs (see J. E. Roberts, E. Gilboa, & I. H. Gotlib, 1998).

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“…Verkuil, Brosschot, Putman, and Thayer (2009) used a similar experimental design and showed that the combination of high anxiety and worry was able to predict attentional disengagement. Besides the high correlation between worry and anxiety, it has been shown by path-analytic models that worry causally influences anxiety (Gana, Martin, & Canouet, 2001). To further underline the importance of worry for anxiety, it has been proposed that worry might be the component of anxiety that is responsible for the observed problems in disengagement (Eysenck, Derakshan, Santos, & Calvo, 2007).…”

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Threat engagement, disengagement, and sensitivity bias in worry-prone individuals as measured by an emotional go/no-go task

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Köchel²,

Schäfer³

et al. 2012

Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry

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Worry and Anxiety: Is There a Causal Relationship?

Cited by 66 publications

References 42 publications

Worry, generalized anxiety disorder, and emotion: Evidence from the EEG gamma band

Worry, generalized anxiety disorder, and emotion: Evidence from the EEG gamma band

Repetitive Thought and Emotional Distress: Rumination and Worry as Prospective Predictors of Depressive and Anxious Symptomatology

Threat engagement, disengagement, and sensitivity bias in worry-prone individuals as measured by an emotional go/no-go task

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