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- Title
Cognitive coping in anxiety-disordered adolescents
- Authors
Legerstee, Jeroen S.; Garnefski, Nadia; Verhulst, Frank C.; Utens, Elisabeth M.W.J.
- Abstract
Abstract: The present study investigated differences in cognitive coping strategies between anxiety-disordered and non-anxious adolescents. In addition, the interaction effect with gender as well as differences between specific anxiety diagnoses was examined. A clinical sample of 159 anxiety-disordered adolescents and a general community sample of 370 non-anxious adolescents were recruited. Nine cognitive coping strategies were assessed in all adolescents (aged 12–16 years). Results showed that anxiety-disordered adolescents had significantly higher scores on most of the cognitive coping strategies than non-anxious adolescents. The cognitive coping strategies rumination, self-blame and catastrophizing accounted for most of the variance. Gender did not modify the results. Further analyses within the anxiety-disordered sample indicated that adolescents with a generalized anxiety disorder scored significantly higher on rumination, but not on other cognitive coping strategies, than social phobic adolescents. The results suggest that cognitive coping is a valuable target for psychological assessment and treatment in adolescents.
- Subjects
ADOLESCENT psychology; PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation in adolescence; COGNITION in adolescence; SOCIAL phobia in adolescence; ANXIETY disorders; TREATMENT of diseases in teenagers; CATASTROPHIZING; PSYCHODIAGNOSTICS; GENERALIZED anxiety disorder; SYMPTOMS
- Publication
Journal of Adolescence, 2011, Vol 34, Issue 2, p319
- ISSN
0140-1971
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1016/j.adolescence.2010.04.008