In the cognitive modal, modification of patients fear of negative emotional contrasts and positive beliefs about worry take place (Fonzo & Etkin, 2016; Newman & Llera, 2011). Emotional factors reviewed above indicate that problems in understanding and regulating emotions, emotional sensitivity, emotional intensity, emotional reactivity, and perceived lack of control in the literature have a crucial role in the development of psychopathology. So, in order to escape experiencing negative emotional contrast, they actively start to worry again (Llera & Newman, 2014). This finding could be explained from the perspective of the CAM. From the viewpoint of these individuals, the emotions are difficult to understand and hardly could be relieved. 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Effects of worry on physiological and subjective reactivity to emotional stimuli in generalized anxiety disorder and nonanxious control participants. The Contrast Avoidance (CA) model (Newman & Llera, 2011) proposed that individuals with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) fear sharp emotional shifts (or contrasts), such as the shift from a pleasant or neutral state to one of sudden distress following a negative event. A novel theory of experiential avoidance in generalized anxiety disorder: a review and synthesis of research supporting a contrast avoidance model of worry Clin Psychol Rev . Lab. Individuals with GAD experience heightened emotional reactivity in dealing with negative life events (Llera & Newman, 2014) and negative stimuli (Fitzgerald et al., 2017). Another critique was generally on the failure of both EDM and the CAM in predicting normal worry. Worry is defined as a chain of repetitive and uncontrollable thoughts about possible future negative events (Roemer & Borkovec, 1993). However, contrary to his/her expectation, that event does not happen, or something good happens instead. The CAM claims that the main fear of individuals with GAD is a negative emotional contrast, which has a unique position among other theoretical models (Dugas et al., 2004; Mennin, 2004; Wells, 2006). We use cookies to improve your website experience. Consequently, fear of losing control causes anxious individuals to prefer feeling anxious over feeling relaxed during the relaxation process (Kim & Newman, 2019; Llera & Newman, Llera & Newman, 2014). Another essential issue in approving the pathology model is the development of protocols and therapeutic manuals that can be used to change the pathological components of the model. Hunot,V., Churchill,R., Teixeira,V., Silva de Lima,M. (2007). On the other hand, to validate this model, it is necessary to conduct studies in healthy, sub-clinical (at-risk) and clinical samples diagnosed with emotional disorders (with or without comorbid GAD) to demonstrate that CA tendencies present in a range of emotional disorders. The EDM posits that worry develops in individuals with high levels of emotional reactivity who have maladaptive attempts in coping with these emotional experiences (Turk et al., 2005).