Children's responses to worry-relevant vignettes were used to assess interpretation of ambiguous and threatening situations, degree of perceived threat, degree of situation-specific worry, and perceived likelihood of future occurrence.
If you were to make a tag cloud of recurring worries on relevant forums, themes like 'homesickness', 'language' and 'Skype connection' would loom large.
'Worry' is extremely relevant when thinking about one's future risk of heart disease.
The authors concluded that depleted working memory resources during worry may be relevant to the persistence and perceived uncontrollability of worry.
In a recent study by Stokes and Hirsch (2010) high-worriers were trained to engage in either verbal or imagery-based mentation about a personally relevant worry topic.
Exploring the effect of generating imagery about a personally-relevant worry topic on mood, compared to verbally worrying, was a secondary aim of the study.
Even if he is playing for the cameras a bit, this fellow convinces you that crime families are as worried about staying relevant as, say, churches or 4-H Clubs.
This is currently one of the most relevant worries related to potentially missing diagnosis.
In spite of these advantages, a worry is that the relevant counterfactuals don't after all ensure causal relevance, and in this sense don't vindicate anomalous monism.
A final limitation is that, although this study assessed a wide range of anxiety symptoms, there were no symptom measures relevant to worry (GAD), obsessions/compulsions (OCD), or trauma symptoms (PTSD).
Here I am, 63 and worried about still being relevant in the world.
