Self-schemas in social phobia and panic disorder
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1999
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Van Niekerk J.K.
Moller A.T.
Nortje C.
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A modified Stroop color-naming task was used to investigate whether social phobia and panic disorder are associated with a hypervigilance to social and physical threat-related cues, respectively, as predicted by Beck's cognitive theory of anxiety disorders. Color-naming latencies of 13 individuals with social phobia and 15 with panic disorder for words representing social and physical threats, respectively, were compared to matched neutral control words. The results did not support the hypothesis that the self-schemas of individuals with panic disorder are hypersensitive to information association with physical threat and that persons with social phobia are overly concerned with social threat.
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adult, article, color vision, comparative study, female, hospitalization, human, linguistics, male, panic, phobia, psychological aspect, psychological rating scale, self concept, Adult, Color Perception, Female, Humans, Male, Panic Disorder, Phobic Disorders, Psychiatric Status Rating Scales, Self Concept, Severity of Illness Index, Vocabulary
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Psychological Reports
84
3 PART 1
84
3 PART 1