We hypothesized that certain symptoms associated with cognitive control abnormalities for emotion processing, such as sad mood, anxious mood, worry, and rumination/dwelling, would be responsive to the EFMT intervention, whereas other unrelated symptoms, such as sleep and appetite disturbance, would not.
Common to both conditions is 'general distress', consisting of non-specific 'Negative Affect' symptoms (e.g., depressed mood, anxious mood, insomnia).
A factor analysis revealed three independent factors consisting of a total of nine descriptors: (1) Anxious mood (nervous, worried, scared, anxious), (2) depressed mood (sad, hopeless), and (3) angry mood (angry, furious, bitter).
But more often the mood is anxious, angry or subdued, interspersed with occasional moments of escape.
The mood was anxious, according to several attendees, as network executives discussed the findings from focus groups with hundreds of viewers.
The poster for The Exorcist (1973) perfectly captures the mood of anxious self-reflection that followed the hedonism of the 60s in the US.
[Section A.] Mood Turns Anxious for Workers With longshoremen, janitors and Boeing employees threatening major strikes and workers reeling from corporate scandals and rising unemployment, the mood among American workers has turned anxious and even angry this Labor Day.
The commentariat has been complaining of this condition for a while: the feeling that the political mood (an anxious, belligerent frustration) is seeping into everything, disrupting moments and exchanges and activities that were formerly peaceful.
"I didn't expect him to get me laughing," Bacon says from his desk, where he reports the office mood is "anxious".
Along the way he discovered that when we're in a down mood -- irritable, anxious and grouchy -- our brain has high activity in the right prefrontal area, just behind the forehead.
Interventions focusing on positive self-statements, positive emotions and positive events may enhance resiliency and may function as a buffer against developing negative mood or anxious feelings.
