Abstract

RODRIGUEZ BIGLIERI, Ricardo; AUNE, Sofía  and  VETERE, Giselle. Emotion regulation in patients with anxiety disorders: a comparative study with a community sample. Anu. investig. [online]. 2012, vol.19, n.1, pp.273-280. ISSN 1851-1686.

According to current psychopathological models development and maintenance of anxiety disorders (AD) would be related to the use of maladaptive emotion regulation strategies. The study compared the use of emotional regulation strategies to cope with unpleasant emotions in a group of 62 patients with AD and one composed by 61 controls (CG). No di f ferences were found between groups regarding use of cognitive approximation strategies. Compared with control group patients with AD reported a greater tendency to engage in Cognitive Avoidance, Resignation-Acceptance, Emotional discharge and Support Seeking strategies. In turn, AD patients were less prone to use Problem Solving strategies. For AD group Resignation-Acceptance, Emotional discharge and Logical Analysis strategies were positively correlated to all symptomatology measures while Positive Revaluation strategy did negatively. In view of the results their implications for the development of new treatment protocols are discussed.

Keywords : Emotion regulation; Anxiety disorders; Resignation; Cognitive avoidance.

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