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Excessive Worry

Excessive Worry is a cognitive-affective construct characterized by persistent, uncontrollable, and disproportionate apprehensive thinking about multiple domains of everyday life, distinguished from normative worry by its frequency, intensity, and functional impairment.

715

Publications

60.5K

Citations

2.1K

Authors

823

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

191

Variants

Pathological Worry

Parents

Publications

715

Development and validation of the penn state worry questionnaire

Thomas Meyer, Mark L. Miller, R. Metzger et al. · Behaviour Research and Therapy · 1990 · 5.1K citations

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Anxiety and Performance: The Processing Efficiency Theory

Michael W. Eysenck, Manuel G. Calvo · Cognition & Emotion · 1992 · 2.4K citations

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Preliminary exploration of worry: Some characteristics and processes

Thomas D. Borkovec, Elwood Robinson, Thomas Pruzinsky et al. · Behaviour Research and Therapy · 1983 · 1.5K citations

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Fear of the coronavirus (COVID-19): Predictors in an online study conducted in March 2020

Gaëtan Mertens, Lotte Gerritsen, Stefanie Duijndam et al. · Journal of Anxiety Disorders · 2020 · 1.2K citations · Full text

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Generalized anxiety disorder: advances in research and practice

Choice Reviews Online · 2005 · 1.1K citations

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1–5 of 715

Authors

2.1K

  1. TD
    Thomas D. Borkovec

    Pennsylvania State University, United States

    18 publications · 11K citations

    18

    h-index

  2. MJ
    Michel J. Dugas

    Concordia University, Canada

    17 publications · 2.6K citations

    17

    h-index

  3. CR
    Colette R. Hirsch

    King's College London, United Kingdom

    16 publications · 1.5K citations

    15

    h-index

  4. AM
    Andrew Mathews

    University of California, Davis, United States

    13 publications · 1.2K citations

    13

    h-index

  5. MG
    Michelle G. Newman

    Pennsylvania State University, United States

    12 publications · 703 citations

    12

    h-index

1–5 of 2.1K

Institutions

823

  1. Pennsylvania State University

    State College, United States

    31 h-index

    76 publications

    27.8K citations

  2. King's College London

    London, United Kingdom

    26 h-index

    79 publications

    7.4K citations

  3. University of Manchester

    Manchester, United Kingdom

    16 h-index

    25 publications

    2.1K citations

  4. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    15 h-index

    54 publications

    3.4K citations

  5. The Ohio State University

    Columbus, United States

    14 h-index

    20 publications

    2K citations

  6. Concordia University

    Montreal, Canada

    13 h-index

    31 publications

    4.8K citations

  7. UNSW Sydney

    Sydney, Australia

    12 h-index

    34 publications

    2.1K citations

  8. University of California, Davis

    Davis, United States

    12 h-index

    13 publications

    1.2K citations

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Venues

  1. Behaviour Research and Therapy

    48 publications · 13K citations

    41

    h-index

  2. Cognitive Therapy and Research

    26 publications · 2.8K citations

    23

    h-index

  3. Journal of Anxiety Disorders

    31 publications · 3.9K citations

    23

    h-index

  4. Personality and Individual Differences

    20 publications · 982 citations

    16

    h-index

  5. 15

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