1. A Dimensional Approach to Depression and Anxiety
... . High correlations and comorbidities led to proposals with more dimensional approach to mood and anxiety groups. Higher order temperamental and personality dimensions explain covariance between mood and anxiety. Negative affect (NA) appears to explain significant amount of variance among anxiety and depressive symptoms in the sample of residential youth (Burns & Eidelson, 1998) Positive Affect (PA) appeared to be critical factor that ... distinguished anxiety and depressive symptoms (Watson, 2005). A combination of high NA and low PA characterizes depressive symptoms and high NA charact...
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