Abstract The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory–Trait version (STAI-T) was developed to measure
an individual's tendency to experience anxiety, but it may lack discriminant evidence of …

The current study presented the first meta-analytic review on the associations between the
Big Five personality traits and stress measured under different conceptualizations (stressor …

In the past decades, reductionism has dominated both research directions and funding
policies in clinical psychology and psychiatry. The intense search for the biological basis of …

Well-being is a broad, multifaceted construct. This chapter reviews different ways of defining
and measuring well-being and the implications this has for understanding the correlates and …

Fear and anxiety play a central role in mammalian life, and there is considerable interest in
clarifying their nature, identifying their biological underpinnings, and determining their …

Naturalistic observations show that decisions to avoid or escape predators occur at different
spatiotemporal scales and that they are supported by different computations and neural …

Objective: Diagnosis is a cornerstone of clinical practice for mental health care providers, yet
traditional diagnostic systems have well-known shortcomings, including inadequate …

Anxiety disorders impose a staggering burden on public health, underscoring the need to
develop a deeper understanding of the distributed neural circuits underlying extreme fear …

Transdiagnostic treatments span a heterogeneous group of interventions that target a wider
range of disorders and can be applied to treat several disorders simultaneously. Several …

Over the past 25 years, considerable progress has been achieved in treating adult
psychiarric disorders (eg, Butler, Chapman, Forman, & Beck, 2006). Despite these …