The Nature of Anxiety and Generalized Anxiety Disorder

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Abstract

For a full exposition of this theoretical model, see Barlow () and Zinbarg (). In brief, interactions among the following factors are recognized in the genesis of GAD: negative affectivity or neuroticism; attentional vigilance and narrowing to signals of potential threat; a tendency toward interpreting ambiguous situations as threatening; passive avoidance, overcautiousness, or procrastination; perceptions of uncontrollability and unpredictability; and cognitive avoidance, distraction, or other active efforts to resist or neutralize worrying.