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Family Accommodation Questionnaire—Modified (FAQ–M) The FAQ–M is a modified version of the Family Accommodation Questionnaire (FAQ; Calvocoressi et al., 1995), a 13-item self-report measure originally developed to assess the frequency of accommodating behavior in response to a family member with OCD. To make the FAQ applicable to the broader class of anxiety disorders, the wording of…

Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule for DSM–IV (ADIS–IV; Brown, DiNardo, & Barlow, 1994) The ADIS–IV is a semistructured clinical interview used to assess the presence of current DSM–IV anxiety, mood and substance-use disorders among adults. In this study, anxiety, mood and substance-use modules were administered to determine diagnostic status as well as the presence of comorbid disorders. Brown, DiNardo, Lehman, and Campbell…

Married or cohabiting adults seeking psychotherapy at the clinics listed above were contacted by a research assistant about a study on “relationships and stress.” Students were contacted if they endorsed being married or living with a significant other. All prospective participants were administered a telephone screening interview by a master’s-level clinician to inquire about the…

Our sample consisted of 33 married and/or cohabiting (≥6 months) heterosexual couples in which the female partner met Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed.; DSM–IV; American Psychiatric Association, 1994) criteria for a principal anxiety disorder. Exclusion criteria included evidence of psychosis, risk of self-harm, partner abuse, alcohol or substance abuse in the last 6 months, an…

We observed associations between anxiety and relationship quality (RQ) among couples in which one partner (the wife) was diagnosed with an anxiety disorder. We used a daily process design to improve on prior studies that relied on cross-sectional, between-person analyses. Specifically, we hypothesized that: Wives’ daily anxiety would be associated with daily perceptions of RQ…

Research on the interpersonal consequences of depression highlights the adverse effects of one partner’s mood disturbance on another (Joiner & Katz, 1999). The tendency to “catch” another person’s distress is referred to as emotional contagion and has been supported extensively in social psychology (e.g., Hatfield, Cacioppo, & Rapson, 1994) as well as in the literature on depression (Katz…