Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- PART I INTRODUCTION: THE EXPERIENCE OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
- PART II THE EXPERIENCE SAMPLING METHOD: PROCEDURES AND ANALYSES
- PART III EXPERIENCE SAMPLING STUDIES WITH CLINICAL SAMPLES
- 7 Variability of schizophrenia symptoms
- 8 The daily life of ambulatory chronic mental patients
- 9 ‘Goofed-up’ images: thought sampling with a schizophrenic woman
- 10 The social ecology of anxiety: theoretical and quantitative perspectives
- 11 Consequences of depression for the experience of anxiety in daily life
- 12 Dysphoric moods in depressed and non-depressed adolescents
- 13 Capturing alternate personalities: the use of Experience Sampling in multiple personality disorder
- 14 Bulimia in daily life: a context-bound syndrome
- 15 Alcohol and marijuana use in adolescents' daily lives
- 16 Drug craving and drug use in the daily life of heroin addicts
- 17 Stress, coping and cortisol dynamics in daily life
- 18 Vital exhaustion or depression: a study of daily mood in exhausted male subjects at risk for myocardial infarction
- 19 Blood pressure and behavior: mood, activity and blood pressure in daily life
- PART IV THERAPEUTIC APPLICATIONS OF THE EXPERIENCE SAMPLING METHOD
- PART V PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH APPLICATIONS: PRACTICAL ISSUES and ATTENTION POINTS
- CLOSING Looking to the future
- References
- List of contributors
- Index
10 - The social ecology of anxiety: theoretical and quantitative perspectives
from PART III - EXPERIENCE SAMPLING STUDIES WITH CLINICAL SAMPLES
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 May 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- PART I INTRODUCTION: THE EXPERIENCE OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
- PART II THE EXPERIENCE SAMPLING METHOD: PROCEDURES AND ANALYSES
- PART III EXPERIENCE SAMPLING STUDIES WITH CLINICAL SAMPLES
- 7 Variability of schizophrenia symptoms
- 8 The daily life of ambulatory chronic mental patients
- 9 ‘Goofed-up’ images: thought sampling with a schizophrenic woman
- 10 The social ecology of anxiety: theoretical and quantitative perspectives
- 11 Consequences of depression for the experience of anxiety in daily life
- 12 Dysphoric moods in depressed and non-depressed adolescents
- 13 Capturing alternate personalities: the use of Experience Sampling in multiple personality disorder
- 14 Bulimia in daily life: a context-bound syndrome
- 15 Alcohol and marijuana use in adolescents' daily lives
- 16 Drug craving and drug use in the daily life of heroin addicts
- 17 Stress, coping and cortisol dynamics in daily life
- 18 Vital exhaustion or depression: a study of daily mood in exhausted male subjects at risk for myocardial infarction
- 19 Blood pressure and behavior: mood, activity and blood pressure in daily life
- PART IV THERAPEUTIC APPLICATIONS OF THE EXPERIENCE SAMPLING METHOD
- PART V PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH APPLICATIONS: PRACTICAL ISSUES and ATTENTION POINTS
- CLOSING Looking to the future
- References
- List of contributors
- Index
Summary
Anxiety disorders and agoraphobic symptoms have had a long history: For more than a century they have been the subject of clinical and theoretical interest in psychiatry (Da Costa, 1871; Freud, 1924). Today, through the application of rigorous diagnostic procedures, anxiety has been recognized as an epidemiologically significant disorder, especially in women (Pitts, 1971; American Psychiatric Association, 1980; Robins et al., 1984).
In recent years most research has focused on the possible underlying mechanisms of anxiety. Genetic and endocrinological explanations, particularly the finding that sodium lactate and carbon dioxide precipitate panic attacks, stimulated the rapidly advancing search for metabolic or biological factors (Pitts & McClure, 1967; Marks & Herst, 1970; Crowe et al., 1980; Appleby et al., 1981; Sheehan et al., 1981; van den Hout & Griez, 1984a, b). Nevertheless, a mechanism underlying anxiety that accounts for all cases is still debated, and exact behavioral and phenomenological descriptions of anxiety phenomena are generally lacking. A precise description of the symptomatology and the variability of anxiety over time and place that could further be linked to the growing biological data base is necessary.
Recent advances in the field support this suggestion: Hibbert (1984), Borkovec (1985), and Ley (1985) have offered behavioral, dynamic, affective, and ideational descriptions of anxiety and panic. Ambulatory monitoring of physiological measures has demonstrated that periods of anxiety in normal subjects are phenomenologically similar to spontaneous and situational panic attacks in patients (Margraf et al., 1987) and both are subject to diurnal and situational influences (Freedman et al., 1985; Taylor et al., 1986).
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- The Experience of PsychopathologyInvestigating Mental Disorders in their Natural Settings, pp. 129 - 140Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1992
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