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Anxiety Disorders
Bowie State University publishes research in anxiety disorders
June 18th, 2007
A new study, "Hair pulling and its affective correlates in an African-American university sample," is now available. According to recent research from the United States, "Like other clinical phenomena, repetitive hair pulling in African-Americans has attracted little systematic investigation. Slightly over 200 participants were recruited from a historically black university." "Participants completed the Hair Pulling Scale [Stanley, M. A., Borden, J. W., Bell, G. E., & Wagner, A. L. (1994). Nonclinical hair pulling: phenomenology and related psychopathology. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 8, 119-130], the Beck Depression Inventory, and the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI)....
Source: Mental Health Weekly Digest (2007-06-18)
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