TY - JOUR JF - sjimu JO - J. Ilam Uni. Med. Sci. VL - 22 IS - 6 PY - 2015 Y1 - 2015/1/01 TI - The role of emotion regulation deficits, thought-action fusion and behavioral inhibition in Generalized Anxiety Disorder TT - نقش نقایص تنظیم هیجان، آمیختگی فکر-عمل و بازداری رفتاری در اختلال اضطراب منتشر N2 - Introduction: Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is affected by different emotional, cognitive and natural factors. The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of emotional regulation deficits, thought-action fusion and behavioral inhibition in Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Materials & Methods: This research is a correlational study and the sample included 120 patients with GAD selected from patients referring to four psychiatry centers in Shiraz using availability sampling. Instruments used for data collection included Cognitive emotion regulation questionnaire (CERQ), Thought Fusion Instrument (TFI), Beck Anxiety Inventory (BDI), retrospective and adults Measures of Behavioral Inhibition (RMBI, AMBI), and the 20-item Toronto alexithymia Scale (TAS-20). Data was analyzed using Pearson Correlation Coefficient and stepwise multiple regression analysis method. Findings: Results showed that there was a significant relationship between difficulty in describing and identifying emotions, mal-adaptive emotion regulation strategies, thought-action fusion and childhood behavioral inhibition with GAD (p SP - 115 EP - 124 AU - Davoodi, A AU - Neshat Doost, HT AU - Abedi, MR AU - Talebi, H AD - And Research Branch, Islamic Azad University KW - Emotion regulation deficits KW - thought-action fusion KW - behavioral inhibition KW - generalized anxiety disorder UR - http://sjimu.medilam.ac.ir/article-1-1741-en.html ER -