Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology, 1998? / Bibliography: leaves 1-26.

Thesis (M.A.)--York University, 2007. Graduate Programme in Psychology. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 51-63). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:MR32009

Thesis (Ph.D.)--George Mason University, 2009. / Vita: p. 118. Thesis director: Robert F. Smith. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed June 10, 2009\). Includes bibliographical references (p. 101-117). Also issued in print.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 36-40).

Thesis (D.C.P./Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 2008. / Title from title screen (viewed February 4, 2009). Includes graphs, tables and questionnaries. Includes list of publications co-authored with others: leaves 21-22. Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Clinical Psychology / Doctor of Philosophy to the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Science. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print form.

Purpose: This thesis investigated whether perceived parental care and overprotection predicted accuracy of face emotion recognition in psychiatrically healthy youth. The study also examined whether child gender and having a parent with a history of anxiety moderated the relationship between parental bonding and facial emotion recognition, and whether behavioural inhibition mediated this relationship. Methods: The sample comprised 176 males and females aged 7-18 years. Participants completed the Parental Bonding Instrument, Childhood Self-Report of Inhibition, and the Ekman emotion recognition task. Results: Child gender and parental history of anxiety moderated the relationship between perceived parenting style and affect recognition. In boys, overprotection by father predicted deficits in recognizing fearful faces; in children with parental anxiety, low paternal care predicted deficits in recognizing angry faces; and in boys with parental anxiety, negative maternal bonding predicted deficits in recognizing expressions of surprise. Also, maternal overprotection predicted intensity of subjective anxiety while viewing expressions of surprise and happiness for all offspring, and behaviour inhibition mediated these relationships. Implications: The present study provides preliminary evidence that parental bonding interacts with risk group and gender in predicting accuracy of facial affect recognition in healthy youth. Further research is needed to confirm these findings and determine whether the interaction between gender, risk group and deficits in social cognition increase risk for developing pathological anxiety.

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This thesis aimed to investigate the genetic basis of anxiety in mice. The first half describes searches for genetic variation beneath quantitative trait loci (QTLs) and computationally pulls together data from several sources in order to assess how likely each variant is to be responsible for the QTLs. The second half describes the results of the behavioural phenotyping of three knockout mouse models. Examination of the sequence data beneath anxiety-related QTLs mapped from quasi-outbred mice identified 326 variants across eight inbred mouse strains in the coding and promoter regions beneath a prominent QTL for startle behaviour on murine chromosome 15. Variants in the genes Muc19, Gxylt1 and Kif21a were pinpointed as being most likely to contribute towards the phenotypic variation of that QTL. 12 structural variants (SVs) were also identified across the same strains as being potentially causal for at least one QTL when the search was extended to the whole genome. Testing the association between SV genotype and phenotype in an outbred murine population implied that SVs in the genes Fam110c, Fam117a and Gm6320 had similar phenotypic associations across different populations of mice, although the associations in the outbred mice did not achieve statistical significance. From the work with the three knockout mouse models, it was concluded that two of the genes, Eps15 and Car2, do affect anxiety in male animals, with Eps15 deficiency reducing anxiety and Car2 deficiency increasing it. The results for the Dstn mouse model were inconclusive. This model may need to be reengineered onto a less anxious background for future testing. In conclusion, this thesis identified a number of genes and genetic variants, some of which do seem to affect murine anxiety levels. Improved understanding of anxiety in mice will hopefully lead to a better understanding of the causes and treatment of anxiety disorders in humans.

The central theoretical argument of the study is that faith can heal or help counselees to cope with mood and anxiety disorders. In the meta-theoretical perspective a literature study of recent research on mood and anxiety disorders and the therapeutic approaches to each within the disciplines of psychiatry, psychology, and medicine was done. It was found that there are a number of different causes and treatments for depression and anxiety with different disciplines emphasising different perspectives. An empirical study consisting of qualitative structured interviews and observations of a selected group of counselees struggling with depression and anxiety was also carried out. It was established that faith had played a significant role in the healing of the counselee's depression and anxiety or in their ability to deal with their illnesses. The goal with the basis-theoretical perspectives was to explore what the Bible has to teach about 'depression", faith and healing and to research the revelation historical stance on this. Expositional studies of a selected core of biblical references pertaining to depression were undertaken and key biblical figures who suffered from “depression" were studied. It was concluded that although the Bible does not speak of depression and anxiety per se, it describes people who might have been suffering from it. Valuable insights that can be used in helping counselees to deal and/or cope with their depression and anxiety were gained by studying these biblical characters and passages (2 Corinthians 1:3-11, Philippians 4:4-13 and Lamentations). In the practice-theoretical perspective an integrative model which can be used by pastoral counsellors for dealing with depression in a faith-based context and for equipping depression sufferers to constructively deal with their depression and anxiety was developed. This was accomplished by utilising the basis- and meta-theoretical perspectives in a hermeneutical interaction to formulate a holistic faith-based model. / Thesis (Ph.D. (Pastoral))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2006

L’individu est en interaction permanente avec son environnement et tente de s’y adapter sans cesse. En cas d’échec de cette relation transactionnelle (Lazarus), l’individu développe un stress qui peut s’exprimer de différentes façons.Le stress a été largement étudié en population générale, mais il existe peu de données sur les liens entre stress et psychopathologie.Nous nous sommes attachés à intégrer l’ensemble des informations qui pourraient rendre compte du stress au travers de la création d’un questionnaire intégrant à la fois les stresseurs (d’ordre personnel, professionnel et environnemental), les manifestations de stress et les cognitions inadaptées. Ce nouveau questionnaire a bénéficié d’une validité de face, d’une étude de ses validités convergente et divergente, ainsi qu’une étude de ses propriétés psychométriques.Les résultats en population générale (n=2298) montrent de façon nette une expression de stress différente selon le sexe et qu’il existerait des facteurs protecteurs (vie en couple et présence d’enfants).Ce questionnaire a été étudié sur des populations d’hommes et de femmes suivies en ambulatoire, présentant un trouble anxieux (trouble obsessionnel et compulsif, trouble panique avec agoraphobie, trouble anxiété généralisée, trouble anxiété sociale) et comparé aux populations générales.Chacune des populations présente des spécificités d’expression du stress et en particulier la population masculine souffrant d’anxiété généralisée.Les données retrouvées amènent à une réflexion sur les stratégies de coping utilisées par les patients anxieux pour rendre compte de ces différences existant à la fois entre les troubles anxieux mais aussi entre sexes. / Individuals are constantly interacting with and adapting to their environment. When the transactional model (Lazarus) is not met, stress manifests itself in a variety of different forms. While stress has been widely studied in the normal population, little is known about the relationship between stress and psychopathology. The current work attempts to evaluate stress using detailed measures of stress manifestations, daily stressors (personal, work-related, and environmental), and stress-related cognitions. The resulting questionnaire was analysed in terms of face validity followed by a larger study examining its convergent and divergent validity as well as different psychometric properties. The results from the general population (n=2298) show that males and females have significantly different experiences of stress; results also suggest that significant relationships (couple, family) can serve as protective factors. The questionnaire was then used to assess the stress experience in four ambulatory consultation samples of individuals diagnosed with anxiety disorders (obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder with agoraphobia, generalised anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder) and compared with results from the participants in the general population. Stress manifestations differed according to psychological disorder; of note was significant and meaningful differences demonstrated by the male participants suffering from generalised anxiety disorder. The data provide insight into the different types of coping strategies that seem to be used by patients suffering from anxiety disorders.