GAD is more commonly diagnosed in women than men. What is the most prominent cause for this gender difference?

What will be an ideal response?


Gender differences like these are found in many of the anxiety disorders and could be due to multiple causes, the most prominent being that there is greater social approval for females than males to experience and express anxiety-related emotions.

Psychology

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Depending upon the particular adolescent in question and the nature of the experience itself, the death of another person might affect the adolescent's efforts

a. to reestablish intimacy and commitment b. to achieve competency, mastery, or control c. to attain emotional separation from parents d. all of these e. none of these

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In the posttest only design, _____

a. the control and treatment participants are the same people b. the dependent variable is measured only once, after the treatment has been presented c. the control group performs a different task than the experimental group does d. all of these are true

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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

Karen Horney considered neurosis a more common, widespread phenomenon among individuals than most psychologists believed.

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What behavioural assessment procedure creates the most reactivity?

a) Self-monitoring b) Personality inventory c) Projective test d) Structured clinical interview

Psychology