Correlates of Dampening and Savoring in Generalized Anxiety Disorder.

ABSTRACT: Chronic worry and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) symptoms are associated with infrequent savoring, and high dampening, of positive emotions. The goal of the present study was to investigate the indirect role of GAD-relevant processes, including intolerance of uncertainty (IU), fear of negative emotional contrasts, and negative beliefs about positive emotion and its regulation, in the relationship between GAD symptom severity and the tendency to engage in dampening and not savor positive emotions. Community participants (N = 233) completed questionnaires online. In separate models, IU, fear of negative emotional contrasts, and negative beliefs about positive emotion and its regulation fully mediated the relationships between GAD symptom severity and greater dampening and lower sa

SUBMITTER: Malivoire BL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9483300 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature