Dysfunctional attitudes, automatic thoughts and anxiety symptoms among Turkish youth: Results from a pilot study

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 1113
Author(s):  
Kadriye Parim ◽  
Habib Erensoy ◽  
Melek Lus
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Anxiety Symptoms ◽  
Automatic Thoughts ◽  
Dysfunctional Attitudes ◽  
Turkish Youth

A pilot study of attachment relationships, psychological problems and negative automatic thoughts among college students in Pakistan

2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Siddrah Irfan ◽  
Nor Sheereen Zulkefly
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Psychological Problems ◽  
Peer Attachment ◽  
Automatic Thoughts ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Attachment Relationships ◽  
Automatic Thought ◽  
Symptoms Of Depression ◽  
Negative Automatic Thoughts

AbstractObjectivesThe present pilot study examined the associations between attachment relationships, psychological problems, and negative automatic thoughts among late adolescents in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.SubjectsA total of 98 participants (male = 49, female = 49) were recruited from government colleges in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.MethodsThe measures used to assess the research variables of this cross sectional study were the Inventory of Parent-Peer Attachment (IPPA-Urdu), Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale (DASS-Urdu), and the Automatic Thought Questionnaire (ATQ-Urdu).ResultsAll of these measures had good reliabilities. Findings of the correlation analyses demonstrated that maternal, paternal and peer attachment relationships were negatively related to symptoms of depression and anxiety as well as to negative automatic thoughts. On the other hand, depressive and anxiety symptoms were positively associated with negative automatic thoughts. Additionally, findings suggested that future studies must investigate adolescents from two-parent households and exclude those with only one living parent.ConclusionThe results underscored the need for further investigations of the linkages between attachment relationships, negative automatic thoughts and psychological problems on larger samples.

Impact of a sleep course on sleep, mood and anxiety symptoms in college students: A pilot study

2017 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Argelinda Baroni ◽  
Jean-Marie Bruzzese ◽  
Christina A. Di Bartolo ◽  
Adam Ciarleglio ◽  
Jess P. Shatkin
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Anxiety Symptoms

Depression/anxiety symptoms in axial spondyloarthritis and psoriatic arthritis patients in Serbia: a pilot study

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (9) ◽  
pp. 1595-1605 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanja Milutinovic ◽  
Kristina Veljkovic ◽  
Maja Zlatanovic ◽  
Goran Radunovic ◽  
Nemanja Damjanov
Keyword(s):  
Psoriatic Arthritis ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Axial Spondyloarthritis ◽  
Anxiety Symptoms

Cognitive Schemata in Depressed Adolescent Girls and Their Mothers

2006 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Simmons ◽  
Myra J. Cooper ◽  
Jonquil Drinkwater ◽  
Anne Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Adolescent Girls ◽  
Cognitive Theory ◽  
Automatic Thoughts ◽  
Dysfunctional Attitudes ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Clinical Group ◽  
Cognitive Schemata ◽  
Depressed Group ◽  
Depressed Adolescent ◽  
Mood And Cognition

Schemata (and other cognitions) were investigated in depressed adolescent girls and their mothers and were compared to those in a control group. Links between adolescent and maternal cognitions were also examined. There were 14 girls and mothers in the clinical group and 15 in the control group. The depressed adolescents had higher total scores on a measure of schemata than the control adolescents, and higher scores on several of its sub-scales. They also scored more highly on two other measures of cognition (dysfunctional attitudes and negative automatic thoughts). The mothers of the depressed adolescents were more depressed than mothers of control adolescents. However, the two groups of mothers did not differ on the measures of cognition, including schemata. Depression and schemata in adolescents were related to these variables in their mothers but only in the depressed group. Possible explanations for the findings, including the nature of the link between mood and cognition in the groups studied, are considered. Implications for cognitive theory and therapy in depressed adolescents are briefly discussed.

Urinary Catecholamine Levels and Response to Group Cognitive Behaviour Therapy in Depression

2010 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 479-483 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tian P. S. Oei ◽  
Genevieve A. Dingle ◽  
Molly McCarthy
Keyword(s):  
Repeated Measures ◽  
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy ◽  
Biological Marker ◽  
Automatic Thoughts ◽  
Dysfunctional Attitudes ◽  
Depression Symptoms ◽  
Urinary Catecholamine ◽  
Behaviour Therapy ◽  
Cognitive Behaviour ◽  
Catecholamine Levels

Aim: The aim was to investigate whether high catecholamine (CA) excreters would respond less well to a group cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) treatment for depression than others. Method: A sample of 70 adults with depression symptoms participated in a 12-week course of group CBT. Participants’ 24 hour urinary catecholamine levels at pre-therapy and post-therapy were used to classify them as High (N = 10); Low (N = 33) or Mixed (N = 27) according to a cut-off one standard deviation above a published mean for healthy adults. Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and cognitions questionnaire (Automatic Thoughts Questionnaire; Beck Hopelessness Scale and Dysfunctional Attitudes Scale) were used. Results: Repeated measures ANOVA analyses showed an equal rate of mood improvement in all three groups over the course of CBT, despite the fact that the High excreters were on average more depressed throughout the study. Changes in depression symptoms were mirrored by improvements in cognitive measures in the three catecholamine groups. Conclusion: This study indicates that adults showing a biological marker of depression (elevated catecholamine levels) are equally able to benefit from CBT treatment as adults without this marker.

Maternal prenatal state anxiety symptoms and birth weight: A pilot study

Open Medicine ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 747-752 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rima Azar ◽  
Samahra Singer
Keyword(s):  
Birth Weight ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
State Anxiety ◽  
Statistical Significance ◽  
Anxiety Symptoms ◽  
State Trait Anxiety Inventory ◽  
Hierarchical Multiple Regression ◽  
Early Gestation ◽  
Lower Birth Weight ◽  
Infant Birth

AbstractMany women suffer from new or worsening anxiety during pregnancy. In this pilot study, we investigated the effect of timing and severity of prenatal state anxiety symptoms on reduced birth weight. We hypothesized that: (1) Women with state anxiety symptoms during mid-gestation would deliver newborns with lower birth weight in comparison to participants with symptoms in early gestation and (2) compared to women with lower anxiety symptoms (< 50th percentile), women with medium-to-high state anxiety symptoms (> 50th percentile) would have lower birth weight offspring. The sample consisted of the first 30 pregnant women who agreed to participate in this pilot study. We assessed anxiety symptoms, using the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory during early and mid-gestation. We obtained birth weight from clinical charts. A hierarchical multiple regression showed that, after controlling for covariates, state anxiety symptoms in mid-gestation were associated with lower infant birth weight [F(9, 7) = 20.30, p<.001]. However, birth weight did not differ as a function of the severity of maternal state anxiety [F(1, 23)=.14, p=.71 and F(1, 24)=1.76, p=.20., respectively]. Clearly, our pilot data need replication. Once statistical significance is established with larger samples, it will be informative to examine the clinical significance of those findings.

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