(1) The lucky thing is, says Susan Calman , that although she is "an eternal worrier, occasionally I do something stupid."
(2) Non-worriers evidenced the same disruptive effects in the 15-worry condition as worriers in that condition and worriers in Study 1.
(3) It’s now!” says their worrier-in-chief, as one of his followers smokes two cigarettes at the same time.
(4) "Mum's a worrier and I knew that if I forgot to call one day, she'd conclude it was because I'd gone and found my birth family," she explains.
(5) I know that phobias are usually learned, or acquired through a traumatic experience, and they’re more common in worriers like me.
(6) Using repertory grid methodology (Bieri et al., 1966) with a group of moderately mood-disturbed 'worriers', results showed that this group are significantly more complex than matched controls, but only for representations concerned with themselves.
(7) On thought sampling measures obtained during relaxed wakefulness periods and rated by objective judges, and on self-report measures obtained during the focused attention task, worriers evidenced significantly more negatively affect-laden cognitive intrusions.
(8) Worriers and nonworriers from a college population were compared on the Imaginal Processing Inventory, the Self-Consciousness scale, and the Sandler-Hazari Obsessionality Inventory.
(9) The results suggest that the pessimistic subjective probabilities shown by chronic worriers can be understood using general theories of judgment, specifically, by the use of the availability heuristic (Tversky & Kahneman, 1973).
(10) Rating by the significant other of how much of a problem worry was for the patient and whether the patient was a worrier preillness was also significantly correlated.
(11) Worriers and non-worriers were assigned to two conditions, either O-worry ("Relax and let your mind wander for 15 minutes") or 15-worry ("Worry as you typically would for 15 minutes").
(12) The findings are taken as indicating that worry is accompanied by changes in cognitive processing and that these changes are similar for worriers and non-worriers.
(13) Oldest children can be perfectionists and worriers, and may put pressure on themselves to succeed.
(14) There were no significant differences between "worriers" and "nonworriers" on demographic or disease variables.
(15) Even if you are an inveterate non-worrier, you will feel more secure after this.
(16) Similarly, worriers in the O-worry condition showed a reduction in disruptive effects.
(17) Worriers showed a significant disruption in processing as the ambiguity of the category membership increased.
(18) Worriers reported a more negative daydreaming style, greater difficulty with attentional control, and greater obsessional symptoms, public self-consciousness and social anxiety.
(19) Though he was a worrier – a trait which undermined his career as a player – he says that, as an umpire, he was surprisingly good at putting wrong decisions behind him.
(20) The story can be summed up thus: touring was exhausting, sessions with the first producer (Radiohead's Nigel Godrich) didn't work out, and frontman Julian Casablancas is a terrible worrier.
Worrywart
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Post–The Wire and Breaking Bad, this sort of super–slick, "cyber" worrywarting is all a bit… 1999.
(2) It is, unmistakably, C-3PO , the finicky, worrywart droid whom Daniels has played in all six Star Wars films, and plays again in the latest instalment, The Force Awakens , which is due out in December.
(3) The Eraser song 'Atoms For Peace' is about Yorke grappling with his worrywart, paranoid-android tendencies.