Gosselin Patrick, Langlois Frédéric, Freeston Mark H, Ladouceur Robert, Laberge Myriam, Lemay Dominique
Department of Phychology Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Que., Canada J1K 2RI.
Behav Res Ther. 2007 Feb;45(2):225-33. doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2006.03.001. Epub 2006 Apr 19.
Studies aiming to better understand worry have neglected children and adolescents. This constitutes an important limitation considering that excessive worry is frequent among adolescents and that patients suffering from excessive worries associate the beginning of their disorder with adolescence. This study evaluates the cognitive variables associated with worry in a sample of 777 adolescents. It attempts to determine whether cognitive avoidance and false beliefs about the usefulness of worries are present and associated with worries in adolescence. The results showed that participants with a high level of worry used more avoidance strategies and held more beliefs about worry. The results also revealed that avoidance of stimuli that trigger unpleasant thoughts and thought substitution were the major avoidance strategies related to worry among adolescents. The belief that worry helps to avoid future negative events was also related to worry. These findings may suggest that adolescents' worries are maintained by processes similar to those observed among adults.
旨在更好地理解担忧情绪的研究忽略了儿童和青少年群体。鉴于过度担忧在青少年中很常见，且患有过度担忧症的患者将其病症的起始与青春期联系起来，这构成了一个重要的局限性。本研究评估了777名青少年样本中与担忧相关的认知变量。它试图确定认知回避以及对担忧有用性的错误信念是否存在，并与青少年的担忧相关联。结果表明，高度担忧的参与者使用了更多的回避策略，并且持有更多关于担忧的信念。结果还显示，回避引发不愉快想法的刺激以及思维替代是青少年中与担忧相关的主要回避策略。认为担忧有助于避免未来负面事件的信念也与担忧有关。这些发现可能表明，青少年的担忧是由与成年人中观察到的类似过程维持的。
