Cross-cultural approach to anxiety disorders

• William Eysenck

  University of Manchester

• Michael Eysenck

  Royal Holloway University of London

In his theory of anxiety disorders, Eysenck (1997) argued that focus on one’s own behavior is associated with social phobia, whereas focus on future-oriented threat cognitions is associated with obsessive-compulsive disorder. These foci occur in part because social phobics tend to be introverted and obsessive-compulsives either perceive themselves as having onerous responsibilities or actually do have them (e.g., women with infants). These assumptions have empirical support (Eysenck).

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