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Attitude towards psychological help in anxiety disorders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

M. Vinogradova ,
A. Ermusheva ,
A. Kiselnikov  and
V. Tsvetkov
M. Vinogradova*
Affiliation:
Department Of Neuro- And Pathopsychology, Faculty Of Psychology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation
A. Ermusheva
Affiliation:
Department Of Pedagogy And Medical Psychology, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), Moscow, Russian Federation
A. Kiselnikov
Affiliation:
Department Of Psychophysiology, Faculty Of Psychology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation
V. Tsvetkov
Affiliation:
Department Of Neuro- And Pathopsychology, Faculty Of Psychology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation
*
*Corresponding author.

Abstract

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Introduction

In anxiety disorders with a lot of research on the effectiveness of treatment procedure it is important to consider patients’ implicit attitude towards mental health services, especially psychological help.

Objectives

To investigate the attitude towards psychological help in anxiety disorders.

Methods

In order to reconstruct an implicit attitude towards psychological help the method of color-emotional semantic associations (Kiselnikov et al., 2014) was used. Ten patients with anxiety disorders and 25 subjects from control group with no history of attending mental health services evaluated subjective differences between 15 semantic objects, 10 basic emotions and 10 colors. Factor analysis was used.

Results

The analysis revealed the two-factor structure: “Valence” and “Arousal”. The semantic object “Psychological help” got 0.92 and 0.72 as first factor loadings and 0.26 and -0.65 as second factor loadings in anxiety disorders and in control group, respectively. The comparison showed a more intense and positive attitude towards psychological help in anxiety disorders. Contrariwise, the data for other semantic objects showed the tendency of more intense and negative evaluations in the clinical group.

Conclusions

In anxiety disorders a shift in the categorical structure of consciousness to more negative and intense attitudes could be associated to anxiety and threat readiness. However, the attitude towards psychological help was an exception as more intense and positive which could be considered as an important factor of the effectiveness of the treatment in anxiety disorders. The research was supported by Russian Foundation for Basic Research with the Grant 17-29-02506.

Keywords

anxiety disorderspsychological help
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European Psychiatry , Volume 64 , Special Issue S1: Abstracts of the 29th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2021 , pp. S191
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