The Cognitive Avoidance Theory of Worry

By Nicholas J. Sibrava, T. Borkovec. 2008

143 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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In Clinical Psychology

1. M. Ojala

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. A. Cunsolo
2. Jacqueline Middleton
3. C. Ogunbode
4. M. Ojala
5. P. Pihkala
6. S. Clayton
7. K. Stevenson
8. Nils Peterson

Citations in the corpus

• Anxiety, Worry, and Grief in a Time of Environmental and Climate Crisis: A Narrative Review (2021, background): “Anxiety and worry have mostly been studied from a clinical perspective (25, 26).”
• An investigation of appraisals in individuals vulnerable to excessive worry: the role of intolerance of uncertainty (2008, unknown): “Self-perpetuating mechanisms have been described in at least two other empirically supported accounts of worry/GAD: Borkovec’s avoidance theory (see Sibrava & Borkovec, 2006) and Wells’s metacognitive theory (see Wells, 2006a).”