TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1997//
TI  - Thoughts of agoraphobic people during scary tasks
JO  - Journal of abnormal psychology
A1  - Williams, S. L.
A1  - Kinney, P. J.
A1  - Harap, S. T.
A1  - Liebmann, M.
SP  - 511
EP  - 520
VL  - 106
IS  - 4
N2  - The authors examined the occurrence of theoretically derived patterns of thinking in 74 agoraphobic participants as they drove alone or tolerated an enclosed place. During the increasingly scary tasks in a behavioral test hierarchy, participants responded to a periodic beep by stating aloud what they were thinking at that moment, yielding more than 1,800 tape-recorded statements. Content analyses revealed that participants were mainly preoccupied with their current anxiety (expressed in 29% of the statements) and with their self-efficacy (15%). Despite participants' mounting feelings of anxiety, fewer than 1% of their statements expressed a thought of danger or an anticipation of future anxiety or panic. The rarity of danger thoughts poses an explanatory challenge for all cognitive theories of phobia and especially for the perceived danger theory of A. T. Beck (1976) and A. T. Beck, G. Emery, and R. L. Greenberg (1985).<p /> <p>Language: en</p> 
LA  - en
SN  - 0021-843X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -