Psychantenna

Publication year: 2010
Source: Behavior Therapy, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 11 March 2010
Dianne L., Chambless , Kimberly D., Blake , Rachel A., Simmons
The relationship between perceived criticism from one’s relative and attributions about that relative’s behavior was examined in two studies. In Study 1, 50 community couples volunteered to participate in a study of marital interaction. Participants rated their interaction-specific perceived criticism after a 10-min problem-solving interaction and their attributions for their spouses’ behavior during a review of the videotaped interaction. In Study 2, 70 outpatients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (n= 41) or panic disorder with agoraphobia (n= 29) completed a measure of global perceived criticism in their relationship with their spouse or other family member and on another occasion participated in a...