Department of Psychology, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030, United States.
J Anxiety Disord. 2010 Jan;24(1):124-8. doi: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2009.09.007.
This study sought to extend the investigation of cognitive-personality vulnerability in the stress generation process to the field of anxiety. We examined two well documented cognitive vulnerabilities to anxiety: the Looming Cognitive Style (LCS) and Anxiety Sensitivity (ASI). Investigating 72 undergraduates who were assessed twice over a 4-month interval, we found support for the hypothesis that the two cognitive vulnerabilities to anxiety augment each other's stress generating effect. Results indicated that combination of LCS and ASI together had a far stronger stress generation effect that would just one factor alone. Each factor was positively associated with Time 2 stressful events under high levels of the other, but not under low levels. Thus findings revealed that the joint combination of the two cognitive vulnerabilities seemed to play a particularly marked role over a 4-month time interval. These findings are important because they are among the first to show stress generation effects for anxiety-related cognitive styles.
本研究旨在将认知-人格易感性在压力产生过程中的研究扩展到焦虑领域。我们考察了两种有充分文献记载的焦虑认知易感性：潜在认知风格（LCS）和焦虑敏感性（ASI）。通过对 72 名本科生进行为期 4 个月的两次评估，我们发现了以下假设的支持，即两种焦虑认知易感性会增强彼此的压力产生效应。结果表明，LCS 和 ASI 的组合比单一因素具有更强的压力产生效应。在另一个因素处于高水平的情况下，每个因素都与时间 2 的压力事件呈正相关，但在低水平下则没有。因此，研究结果表明，这两种认知易感性的联合组合似乎在 4 个月的时间间隔内发挥了特别显著的作用。这些发现很重要，因为它们是首次表明与焦虑相关的认知风格具有压力产生效应的研究之一。
