Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- PART I INTRODUCTION: THE EXPERIENCE OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
- PART II THE EXPERIENCE SAMPLING METHOD: PROCEDURES AND ANALYSES
- PART III EXPERIENCE SAMPLING STUDIES WITH CLINICAL SAMPLES
- 7 Variability of schizophrenia symptoms
- 8 The daily life of ambulatory chronic mental patients
- 9 ‘Goofed-up’ images: thought sampling with a schizophrenic woman
- 10 The social ecology of anxiety: theoretical and quantitative perspectives
- 11 Consequences of depression for the experience of anxiety in daily life
- 12 Dysphoric moods in depressed and non-depressed adolescents
- 13 Capturing alternate personalities: the use of Experience Sampling in multiple personality disorder
- 14 Bulimia in daily life: a context-bound syndrome
- 15 Alcohol and marijuana use in adolescents' daily lives
- 16 Drug craving and drug use in the daily life of heroin addicts
- 17 Stress, coping and cortisol dynamics in daily life
- 18 Vital exhaustion or depression: a study of daily mood in exhausted male subjects at risk for myocardial infarction
- 19 Blood pressure and behavior: mood, activity and blood pressure in daily life
- PART IV THERAPEUTIC APPLICATIONS OF THE EXPERIENCE SAMPLING METHOD
- PART V PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH APPLICATIONS: PRACTICAL ISSUES and ATTENTION POINTS
- CLOSING Looking to the future
- References
- List of contributors
- Index
11 - Consequences of depression for the experience of anxiety in daily life
from PART III - EXPERIENCE SAMPLING STUDIES WITH CLINICAL SAMPLES
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 May 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- PART I INTRODUCTION: THE EXPERIENCE OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
- PART II THE EXPERIENCE SAMPLING METHOD: PROCEDURES AND ANALYSES
- PART III EXPERIENCE SAMPLING STUDIES WITH CLINICAL SAMPLES
- 7 Variability of schizophrenia symptoms
- 8 The daily life of ambulatory chronic mental patients
- 9 ‘Goofed-up’ images: thought sampling with a schizophrenic woman
- 10 The social ecology of anxiety: theoretical and quantitative perspectives
- 11 Consequences of depression for the experience of anxiety in daily life
- 12 Dysphoric moods in depressed and non-depressed adolescents
- 13 Capturing alternate personalities: the use of Experience Sampling in multiple personality disorder
- 14 Bulimia in daily life: a context-bound syndrome
- 15 Alcohol and marijuana use in adolescents' daily lives
- 16 Drug craving and drug use in the daily life of heroin addicts
- 17 Stress, coping and cortisol dynamics in daily life
- 18 Vital exhaustion or depression: a study of daily mood in exhausted male subjects at risk for myocardial infarction
- 19 Blood pressure and behavior: mood, activity and blood pressure in daily life
- PART IV THERAPEUTIC APPLICATIONS OF THE EXPERIENCE SAMPLING METHOD
- PART V PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH APPLICATIONS: PRACTICAL ISSUES and ATTENTION POINTS
- CLOSING Looking to the future
- References
- List of contributors
- Index
Summary
What clinicians have long noted, recent systematic studies have demonstrated, that anxiety and depression commonly coexist (Roth & Mountjoy, 1982; Hamilton et al., 1984; Dobson, 1985). Many patients with anxiety present with concurrent depressive symptoms and many depressive patients present with concurrent symptoms of anxiety. The past or concurrent incidence of major depression in a sample of agoraphobic panic patients for example may be as high as a 70% (Breier, Charney & Henninger, 1986). Moreover, those individuals with mixed disorders seem to suffer from greater morbidity and poorer psychosocial outcomes (Stavrakaki & Vargo, 1986; Van Valkenburg et al., 1984; Klerman, 1986; Paykel et al., 1973).
In spite of this clinical significance, understanding of the phenomenon and treatment possibilities are incomplete. Experts still disagree about the interaction of depression and anxiety and suggest that this interaction is an artifact of measurement. Previous studies have relied on lifetime prevalence rates or cross-sectional assessments of anxiety and depression without the advantage of clear exclusion criteria that enhance the reliability of diagnosis. Cross-sectional studies about the comorbidity of anxiety and depression have often not been helpful (Mullaney, 1987; Stavrakaki & Vargo, 1986), partly because we have little information about the experience of comorbidity or knowledge about the co-occurrence of symptoms. This paper explores an alternative assessment approach, the Experience Sampling Method (ESM), to highlight daily experiences of subjects with anxiety and depression.
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- The Experience of PsychopathologyInvestigating Mental Disorders in their Natural Settings, pp. 141 - 147Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1992
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