Positive thinking in anxiety disordered children reconsidered

Hogendoorn, Sanne M.; Prins, Pier J. M.; Vervoort, Leentje; Wolters, Lidewij H.; Nauta, Maaike; Hartman, Catharina A.; Moorlag, Henk E.; Haan, Erik de; Boer, Frits

doi:10.1016/j.janxdis.2011.09.003

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“…Cognitive processes have been accorded a pivotal role in the etiology, treatment, maintenance, and remission of depression [51][52][53]. Cognitions play an important role in theories about the development and treatment of anxiety disorders [21]. Often activated by negative and stressful life events, negative automatic thoughts are often repetitive and intrusive, which play a key role in precipitating psychopathology [54].…”

Section: Automatic Thought In Cognitive-behavioral Therapy (Cbt)mentioning

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The relationship between negative and positive cognition and psychopathological states in adults aged 18 to 20

Alsaleh

Lebreuilly

et al. 2016

Journal de Thérapie Comportementale et Cognitive

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SummaryWe have examined the relationships between positive and negative thinking and depression and anxiety. A total of 102 students have participated in this study. The Negative Automatic Thoughts Questionnaire and Positive Automatic Thoughts Questionnaire were used to evaluate negative and positive thoughts, respectively. The Beck Depression Inventory and the Beck Anxiety Inventory were used to assess psychopathological states. Depression was correlated with negative thinking (r = 0.77; P < 0.01) and gender (r = 0.13; P < 0.05), and inversely correlated with positive thinking (r = −0.45; P < 0.01). Multiple linear regressions showed that both negative and positive thinking affected depression (F = 148.04 and F = 13.86, respectively; P < 0.01). Anxiety was correlated with negative thinking (r = 0.62; P < 0.01), and inversely correlated with positive thinking (r = −0.31; P < 0.01) and gender (r = −0.11; P < 0.05). Depressed, non-anxious participants had higher negative thinking scores (P < 0.05) than non-depressed, non-anxious subjects who had lower positive thinking scores (P < 0.05) than non-depressed, nonanxious ones. Depression and anxiety were explained by negative thinking more than positive thinking. A decrease in depression and anxiety could be linked to a decrease in negative * Corresponding author. MOTS CLÉSCognition ; Pensées négatives ; Pensée positive ; État psychopathologique ; Dépression ; Anxiété ; Thérapies comportementales et cognitives Résumé La dépression se caractérise par la présence de pensées négatives, sur soi, sur le monde et sur l'avenir, ce que Beck a appelé la triade cognitive. Les pensées automatiques négatives sont supposées jouer un rôle central dans le développement et la persistance de la dépression (Hollon et Kendall, 1980) et de l'anxiété (Hollon et Kendall, 1980 Sanne et al., 2012). Cependant, le rôle des pensées positives dans la dépression et l'anxiété n'est pas très évident. Notre étude a pour but d'examiner le rôle des auto-déclarations négatives et positives sur le niveau d'anxiété et de dépression des étudiants. Notre échantillon se compose de 102 étudiants âgés de 18 à 20 ans, déprimés, non déprimés, anxieux et non anxieux. Les résultats de l'étude nous ont permis de mettre en évidence deux types de pensées liés aux troubles psychologiques. Premièrement, les pensées automatiques négatives sont fortement activées chez les étudiants déprimés, alors qu'elles le sont beaucoup moins chez les étudiants non déprimés. Deuxièmement, à l'inverse ce sont les pensées automatiques positives qui sont plus activées chez les étudiants non déprimés par comparaison avec les étudiants déprimés. Dans notre étude, la pensée négative est positivement corrélée avec la dépression et l'anxiété (p < 0,01). Cependant, la pensée positive est négativement corrélée avec la dépression et l'anxiété (p < 0,01). Les résultats de la régression multiple linéaire montrent que les pensées négatives et positives ont contribué de manière significative (p < 0,001) à expliquer la variance dans la dépression....

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Section: Automatic Thought In Cognitive-behavioral Therapy (Cbt)mentioning

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“…Negative thinking has been found to play a pivotal role in psychopathological states such as depression [3,11,[13][14][15][16][17][18] and anxiety [3,7,[17][18][19][20][21]. Indeed, studies have found a connection between the presence of negative thoughts and anxiety in clinically anxious adults [22] and children [23].…”

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The relationship between negative and positive cognition and psychopathological states in adults aged 18 to 20

Alsaleh

Lebreuilly

et al. 2016

Journal de Thérapie Comportementale et Cognitive

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“…Contents related to affection in children's thoughts were also observed in the construction process of the Children's Automatic Thoughts Scale (CATS) [40], although that kind of items were removed during the development of the scale's dimensions. Many studies concerning this topic address the cognitive characteristics related to anxiety, even if they do not consider the assessment of the emotional component [25,40,41]. Consequently, the results of the present study raise some questions about the strategies that are being used to study children's cognitive products when the expression of emotions is not considered and how the derived information may be incomplete or biased.…”

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“…positive cognitive products) has been focused only on their quantification, aiming at analysing their frequency in children with different levels of anxiety [25][26][27]. The present work has contributed to surpass the need of more extensive knowledge on positive thoughts pointed out by previous studies [11,16,25], presenting the several contents founds and discussing them in light of the available literature.…”

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Exploring Childhood Cognitions Through the Contents of Childrens Thoughts Related to Anxiety: A Qualitative Approach

Valadao-Dias¹,

Oliveira²,

Rodrigues³

et al. 2016

Clin Exp Psychol

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Aim: The main aim of this study was to explore the contents of children's cognitive products (positive and negative thoughts) related to stories that describe anxiety situations. Method:The final sample was composed of 274 children aged between 10 and 11 years (M = 10.62, SD = 0.5) from a Portuguese community sample. The Portuguese version of the Nine Ambiguous Stories was used. Children's responses to the stories were analyzed using mixed content analysis -the pre-categories and categories were established a priori, the sub-categories emerged from the material. The agreement rate of the main coders had Intra-Correlation Coefficients above 0.97 (p<0.05). Response units were analyzed regarding their frequency and specific contents.Results: Content analysis provided 6,665 recording units of cognitive response allocated to 75 different subcategories. In the nine stories, every positive and negative thought contained expressed emotions. Other contents were also found and divided into 57 sub-categories; 32 were related to negative thoughts and 25 to positive thoughts. Conclusion:The large number of recording units within the dimension of expressed emotions highlights their importance when studying children's cognitive characteristics. Negative thoughts' contents suggest that beliefs related to factors of vulnerability may contribute to higher anxiety symptoms. Some contents of positive thoughts demonstrate the existence of positive beliefs related to characteristics of childhood development that are more stable and that can contribute to the development or maintenance of adequate anxiety manifestations.

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How current and past anxiety disorders affect daily life in adolescents and young adults from the general population—An epidemiological study with ecological momentary assessment

Seidl

Venz

Ollmann

et al. 2021

Depression and Anxiety

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Background Prior research indicated, based on retrospective assessments of symptomatology, that 25% of individuals with “remitted” anxiety disorders (AD) experience a relapse. The present study used ecological momentary assessment (EMA) to examine how ADs affect everyday life among community adolescents and young adults with current or remitted AD compared to healthy controls and to each other. Methods Data come from the baseline assessment of the epidemiological Behavior and Mind Health study, conducted in Dresden (Germany) from 11/2015–12/2016. The sub‐sample analyzed (n = 648, age 14–21) consisted of 65 participants with current DSM‐5 AD‐diagnosis, 52 participants with lifetime AD‐diagnosis but not within the last 6 months (remitted), and 531 healthy controls (no psychopathology; healthy controls [HC]). EMA of various constructs took place 8 times a day for 4 days. Results The highest levels of symptoms were reported by those with current AD, followed by remitted AD and HC. Regression analyses revealed significantly worse mood, self‐efficacy, quality of life and sleep‐quality and more experiential avoidance, stress, negative thoughts and pessimism in remitted and current AD compared to HC. Current AD additional differed significantly from HC in optimism and positive thoughts. Furthermore, individuals with remitted AD without comorbidities differed significantly from HC on five out of 16 constructs. Conclusion Not only current but also remitted AD is associated with diverse negative experiences in everyday life, which cannot merely be explained by comorbidities. As the remaining burden and impairment in individuals with remitted AD might contribute to relapse, interventions might be targeted to improve mental health.

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Positive thinking in anxiety disordered children reconsidered

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References 36 publications

The relationship between negative and positive cognition and psychopathological states in adults aged 18 to 20

The relationship between negative and positive cognition and psychopathological states in adults aged 18 to 20

Exploring Childhood Cognitions Through the Contents of Childrens Thoughts Related to Anxiety: A Qualitative Approach

How current and past anxiety disorders affect daily life in adolescents and young adults from the general population—An epidemiological study with ecological momentary assessment

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