What's the difference between overanxiety and overanxious?
Overanxiety
Definition:
(n.) The state of being overanxious; excessive anxiety.
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Overanxious
Definition:
(a.) Anxious in an excessive or needless degree.
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(1) The current study examined the characteristics of overanxious disorder and social phobia by comparing children who have these disorders to matched normal controls.
(2) The taxonomic properties of overanxious disorder are reviewed using the diagnostic criteria and other features listed in the DSM-III-R manual as a template.
(3) In separation anxiety and avoidance disorders, anxiety is limited to certain settings; in overanxious disorder, anxiety is generalized.
(4) The burned children had significantly higher levels of overanxious disorder, phobias, and enuresis, but they had the same rates of present depressive disorders.
(5) Characteristic behaviors of overanxious parents include a reluctance to finish the office visit and a lack of satisfaction with treatment recommendations.
(6) Two met the criteria for dysthymia, including one of the subjects with overanxious disorder.
(7) Parents of inhibited children, compared with parents of uninhibited and normal controls, had significantly higher risks for multiple (greater than or equal to 2) anxiety disorders, continuing anxiety disorders (both a childhood and adulthood anxiety disorder in the same parent), social phobia, and childhood avoidant and overanxious disorders.
(8) Although some adjustments are needed, to alter overanxious disorder too much in DSM-IV could make past studies of doubtful relevance and could force a fresh start instead of building on current knowledge.
(9) Now, developers and architects hold modest public exhibitions in the immediate neighbourhood of their proposals and are not overanxious that they should be more widely known about.
(10) One hundred seven preadolescent children who meet criteria for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) were further diagnosed by structured interview with regard to oppositional defiant disorder, conduct disorder, and overanxious disorder (ANX).
(11) Children with a primary diagnosis of separation anxiety disorders were most likely to receive a concurrent diagnosis of overanxious disorder.
(12) Differences between a clinical sample of younger (ages 5 to 11) and older (ages 12 to 19) children meeting DSM-III criteria for overanxious disorder (OAD) were examined.
(13) As for the Axis I diagnoses, the subjects fell under the separation anxiety disorder (7 cases), avoidance disorder (13 cases), overanxious disorder (8 cases), identity disorder (5 cases), adjustment disorder (11 cases) and others.
(14) Compared to the remaining children, the depressed children endorsed significantly more symptoms of attention deficit disorder, oppositional disorder, mania, overanxious disorder, phobia, and bulimia in the interview.
(15) The data suggest that overanxious disorder is only a modestly reliable, distinct and valid taxon, and that adjustments to the diagnostic items and criteria and improved sources and methods of data capture are needed.
(16) This was true for the distinctions between attention deficit disorder with versus without hyperactivity; and between avoidant, separation anxiety, and overanxious disorders.
(17) The results provide strong support for the diagnostic validity of social phobia in children but lesser support for overanxious disorder as currently defined.
(18) The effect of the comorbidity of overanxious disorder (ANX) in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) on laboratory measures of behavior, cognition, and stimulant response was examined.
(19) However, there were few variables that distinguished overanxious children.
(20) Separation-anxiety disorder was the most frequent diagnosis of anxiety, followed by overanxious disorder of childhood.