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Background: Action or state orientation has become a relevant concept for understanding and therapy of anxiety disorders: Phobic patients experience state orientation when they fail to maintain their approach intention as anxiety increases. Objection: Is action orientation a precondition for successful treatment or a characteristic of anxiety? Method: During the course of treatment data on the HOLO Anxiety Scale. were collected from 330 patients. Individual growth curves were calculated using...Background: Action or state orientation has become a relevant concept for understanding and therapy of anxiety disorders: Phobic patients experience state orientation when they fail to maintain their approach intention as anxiety increases. Objection: Is action orientation a precondition for successful treatment or a characteristic of anxiety? Method: During the course of treatment data on the HOLO Anxiety Scale. were collected from 330 patients. Individual growth curves were calculated using mixed-effects regression models. The impact of intercept and slope parameters on clinicaly significant symptom reduction on the SCL-90-R was analyzed. Results: Patients Who showed clinically significant improvements had higher slope parameters but no differences in intercept estimates were seen. Conclusions: Action orientation appears to be a characteristic of anxiety, but not a prerequisite for successful treatment. » weiterlesen» einklappen

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