TY - JOUR
KW - Agoraphobia
KW - clinical symptoms
KW - Emotional intelligence
KW - outpatients
KW - panic disorder
AU - Nathalie P. Lizeretti
AU - Ana Rodríguez Ruiz
AB - Of all anxiety disorders, panic disorder with agoraphobia is the most disabling one, and it has been associated with difficulties in emotional processing. Emotional Intelligence (El), which covers a set of abilities to perceive, use, understand and manage emotions, can be useful for studying these difficulties. The aim of this descriptive study was to investigate the relationship between EI and clinical symptoms of agoraphobia in a sample of 99 outpatients diagnosed with panic disorder with agoraphobia and 101 healthy controls who were assessed with the TMMS-24, SCL-R-90 and Agoraphobia Inventory. Scores in Emotional Attention and Regulation showed a difference between both groups. In addition, correlations between Emotional Repair, on one hand, and anxiety symptoms (r = -.4l4, p=,000) and agoraphobia (r = -.363, p=.006) on the other, suggest that a perceived low emotional self-efficacy could constitute a vulnerability factor in the development or maintenance of panic disorder with agoraphobia.
IS - 1
M3 - Journal article
N2 - Of all anxiety disorders, panic disorder with agoraphobia is the most disabling one, and it has been associated with difficulties in emotional processing. Emotional Intelligence (El), which covers a set of abilities to perceive, use, understand and manage emotions, can be useful for studying these difficulties. The aim of this descriptive study was to investigate the relationship between EI and clinical symptoms of agoraphobia in a sample of 99 outpatients diagnosed with panic disorder with agoraphobia and 101 healthy controls who were assessed with the TMMS-24, SCL-R-90 and Agoraphobia Inventory. Scores in Emotional Attention and Regulation showed a difference between both groups. In addition, correlations between Emotional Repair, on one hand, and anxiety symptoms (r = -.4l4, p=,000) and agoraphobia (r = -.363, p=.006) on the other, suggest that a perceived low emotional self-efficacy could constitute a vulnerability factor in the development or maintenance of panic disorder with agoraphobia.
PB - Sociedad Española para el Estudio de la Ansiedad y el Estrés
PY - 2012
SN - 2174-0437/1134-7937
SP - 43
EP - 53
T2 - Ansiedad y Estrés
TI - Perceived emotional intelligence in outpatients diagnosed with panic disorder with agoraphobia
VL - 18
ER -