Temporal course and structural relationships among dimensions of temperament and DSM-IV anxiety and mood disorder constructs.
Abstract
The temporal stability and directional relations among dimensions of temperament (e.g., neuroticism) and selected Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed.; DSM-IV; American Psychiatric Association, 1994) disorder constructs (depression, generalized anxiety disorder, social phobia) were examined in 606 outpatients with anxiety and mood disorders, assessed on 3 occasions over a 2-year period. Neuroticism/behavioral inhibition (N/BI) and behavioral activation/positive affect (BA/P) accounted for the cross-sectional covariance of the DSM-IV constructs. Although N/BI evidenced the most change of the constructs examined, initial levels of N/BI predicted less improvement in 2 of the 3 disorder constructs. Unlike the DSM-IV disorder constructs, the temporal stability of N/BI increased as a function of initial severity. Moreover, N/BI explained all the temporal covariation of the DSM-IV disorder constructs. The results are discussed in regard to conceptual models of temperament that define N/BI and BA/P as higher order dimensions accounting for the course and covariation of emotional disorder psychopathology.
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Prior research indicates that people with SAD have infrequent positive affect and excessive negative affect.
“prior work shows that positive affect is infrequent and negative affect is excessive for people with SAD”
From Commitment to a purpose in life: An antidote to the suffering by individuals with social anxiety disorder. (2013) · cites this paper as Brown, 2007
Neuroticism/negative affect and extraversion/positive affect have been closely related to Gray's constructs of behavioral inhibition and behavioral activation, and these terms are often used interchangeably as the most stable measures of temperament.
“N/NA and E/PA have been closely related to Gray’s (1987) constructs of BI and BA, respectively [24-26], and these terms are often used interchangeably as the most stable measures of temperament [8,15,26,27].”
From Negative and positive affect regulation in a transdiagnostic internet-based protocol for emotional disorders: Randomized controlled trial (2021) · cites this paper as [27]
Treatment is more effective at lowering negative affect than building positive affect in routine practice.
“Consistent with the assertion that existing approaches have neglected the PVS, treatment has been shown to be more effective at lowering NA than building PA in routine practice (Brown, 2007;Kring, Persons, & Thomas, 2007;Naragon-Gainey, Gallagher, & Brown, 2013).”
From Bringing light into darkness: A multiple baseline mixed methods case series evaluation of Augmented Depression Therapy (ADepT) (2019) · cites this paper as Brown, 2007
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- Authors
- Brown, T. A.
- Affiliations
- Boston University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Brown, Timothy A.
- ORCID
- Brown, Timothy A.
- Venue
- Journal of Abnormal Psychology
- Published
- 2007-05
- Volume
- 116
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 313-328
- ISSN
- 0021-843X (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1846
- OpenAlex
- W2107971704
- Cited by
- 306
- References
- 63
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 22.60
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Abnormal Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Mental Health Research Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Keywords
- temperament, neuroticism, behavioral inhibition, behavioral activation, positive affect, anxiety disorders, mood disorders, depression, generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, temporal stability, longitudinal change, disorder severity, psychopathology
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Anxiety Disorders, Cross-Sectional Studies, Depressive Disorder, Female, Humans, Inhibition, Psychological, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Middle Aged, Phobic Disorders, Prognosis, Psychometrics, Risk Factors, Temperament, Reproducibility of Results, Models, Statistical, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
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