The book I chose for my analysis is "Women Who Worry Too Much: How to Stop Worry and Anxiety from Ruining Relationships, Work and Fun," written by Holly Hazlett-Stevens with an introduction written by Michelle G. Craske. The book focuses on worry and anxiety in women within the areas of relationships, work and pleasure. Each chapter focuses on different areas of life for a woman and also explains why women are more prone to worry and anxiety as opposed to the opposite sex. It gives specific examples of how these things can affect women's lives and also provides step by step instructions to understand, cope with and deal with these two mental processes. .
Discussion of the Research.
The first research study I chose was carried out by Marianna Szabo and Peter F. Lovibond and consisted of 57 undergraduate, psychology students who were asked to keep a diary of their worrisome thoughts for a period of seven days or until they had ten worry thoughts whichever came first (Szabo & Lovibond, 174). In this diary they were to note any images or thoughts that ran through their mind during their worry episode. The goal was to determine what exactly these participants were worrying about. The results noted by Szabo & Lovibond (2002), showed that participants were mostly worried about trying to solve a problem and not being able to. .
The second study was done by Colette R. Hirsch, Sarah Hayes, Andrew Mathews, Gemma Perman and Tom Borkovec. This study included 40 participants, 20 of which were previously diagnosed with General Anxiety Disorder (GAD) and 20 who had no previous diagnosis of an anxiety disorder as the control group (Hirsch, Hayes, Mathews, Perman & Borkovec, 2012). The participants were asked to think about a personal worry topic and were instructed to mention if they were having any imagery or verbal thoughts running through their mind during the worry episode when a computer generated beep sound was heard.