Top Research Papers on Anxiety

Eco-anxiety and climate anxiety are widely discussed in contemporary media and are subjects of growing research interest. However, there is a lack of research about the definitions and variations of these phenomena. This article analyzes various views of eco-anxiety from a wide range of disciplines. Insights from various anxiety theories are used to discuss empirical studies about forms of eco-anxiety. The article points out that uncertainty, unpredictability, and uncontrollability seem to be important factors in eco-anxiety. Most forms of eco-anxiety appear to be non-clinical, but cases of “p...

It is proposed that the STAI-T be considered a non-specific measure of negative affectivity rather than trait anxiety per se, in order to further examine discriminant and convergent validity.

In primates, anxiety can be regulated by the prefrontal cortex (PFC), which has expanded in evolution and is thought to underlie primates’ increased capacity to engage high-level regulatory strategies aimed at coping with and modifying the experience of anxiety.

Cognitive behavioral therapy is the psychotherapy with the most evidence of efficacy for anxiety disorders compared with psychological or pill placebo and first-line treatments for Anxiety disorders include cognitive behavioral therapy, SSRIs such as sertraline, and SNRIssuch as venlafaxine extended release.

Reducing the large burden of disease from anxiety disorders in individuals and worldwide can be best achieved by timely, accurate disease detection and adequate treatment administration, scaling up of treatments when needed.

The notion of climate change anxiety has gained traction in the last years. Clayton & Karazsia (2020) recently developed the 22-item Climate Change Anxiety Scale (CAS), which assesses climate change anxiety via a four-factor structure. Yet other research has cast doubts on the very structure of the CAS by calling either for a shorter (i.e. 13 items) two-factor structure or for a shorter single-factor structure (i.e. 13 items). So far, these three different models have not yet been compared in one study. Moreover, uncertainty remains regarding the associations between the CAS and other psycholo...

Growing concerns about anxiety associated with COVID-19 have led to recommendations for effective self-care, and greater availability of mental health treatment, as well as existential concerns raised by the pandemic suggest the importance of religious resources.

The findings suggest that the Turkish version of the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale is a valid and reliable measure to assess the severity of dysfunctional coronavirus related anxiety.

The properties of the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale (CAS), which is a brief mental health screener to identify probable cases of dysfunctional anxiety associated with the COVID-19 crisis, demonstrated solid reliability and validity.

The psychometric properties of the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale are examined using an online survey of 398 adult Amazon MTurk workers in the U.S to support the validity of this mental health screener for COVID-19 related research and practice.

Anxiety and distress about the ecological crisis seems to be a rapidly growing phenomenon. This article analyzes the challenges and possibilities posed by such “eco-anxiety” for environmental education. Variations of eco-anxiety are analyzed, and it is argued that educators should be aware of the multiple forms that the phenomenon has. Eco-anxiety is found to be closely connected with many difficult emotions, such as grief, guilt, anger, and despair. However, anxiety also has an adaptive dimension, which can be called “practical anxiety”. Anxiety is connected with expectation, motivation, and ...

The USPSTF concludes that the current evidence is insufficient to assess the balance of benefits and harms of screening for anxiety in children 7 years or younger.

A systematic review to evaluate the benefits and harms of screening for anxiety disorders in asymptomatic adults concluded with moderate certainty that screening forxiety disorders in adults, including pregnant and postpartum persons, has a moderate net benefit.

Abstract Foreign language classroom anxiety is a construct that has been investigated since the 1980s, yet few studies have examined language anxiety in the context of the online learning environment. In this literature review, the following guiding questions were examined: (a) What is foreign language classroom anxiety? (b) What are the research findings on language anxiety among online learners? (c) What can instructors do to help alleviate their online students' perceived levels of language anxiety? In addition to an exploration of the guiding questions, the Foreign Language Classroom Anxie...

This scoping review sought to systematically map the existing literature on anxiety disorders and nutrition in order to identify associations between dietary factors and anxiety symptoms or disorder prevalence as well as identify gaps and opportunities for further research.

It is suggested that trait health anxiety and cyberchondria serve as risk factors, whereas information about the pandemic and adaptive emotion regulation might represent buffering factors for anxiety during a virus pandemic.

Novel non-invasive brain stimulation techniques that can enhance electroencephalographic slow waves, and might help alleviate sleep and anxiety symptoms are addressed, and the prospect of slow wave sleep is highlighted as a potential therapeutic target for reducing anxiety.

Findings suggest that depressed mood and anxious arousal are characterized by a general disruption in the ability to maintain task goals, whereas anxious apprehension is characterized by cognitive inflexibility, likely contributory factors in the maintenance of affective disorders.

This review connects the clinical manifestations of depression and anxiety in obesity to the current understanding of the origins and biology of immunometabolic threats to central nervous system function and behavior.

The components of saliva that could be helpful in the quick diagnosis of stress, anxiety and/or depression are reviewed and cortisol, lysozyme, sAA and CgA are among the promising salivary biomarkers.