What good are positive emotions for treatment? Trait positive emotionality predicts response to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for anxiety.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is empirically supported for the treatment of anxiety disorders; however, not all individuals achieve recovery following CBT. Positive emotions serve a number of functions that theoretically should facilitate response to CBT - they promote flexible patterns of information processing and assimilation of new information, encourage approach-oriented behavior, and speed physiological recovery from negative emotions. We conducted a secondary analysis of an existing clinical trial dataset to test the a priori hypothesis that individual differences in trait positive emotions would predict CBT response for anxiety.

Method

Participants meeting diagnostic criteria for panic disorder (n = 28) or generalized anxiety disorder (n = 31) complete

SUBMITTER: Taylor CT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5627362 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature