Anxiety Sensitivity and Trait Anxiety As Predictors of Drug-Related Consequences

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faith O. Aremu ◽  
Jonathan M. Freedlander ◽  
Elizabeth C. Katz
Keyword(s):  
Trait Anxiety ◽  
Anxiety Sensitivity

Elucidating the Relationship between Worry and Physical Health

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. jep.008210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evelyn Behar ◽  
R. Kathryn McHugh ◽  
Michael W. Otto
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
Physical Health ◽  
Trait Anxiety ◽  
Anxiety Sensitivity ◽  
Respiratory Infections ◽  
Depression Symptom ◽  
Physical Health Status ◽  
Physical Health Problems ◽  
Upper Respiratory ◽  
The Relationship

Research indicates a relationship between trait worry and physical health, such that individuals with high levels of trait worry display physical health problems (e.g., upper respiratory infections, cardiological problems, immune system impairment). However, existing studies do not address whether three constructs that are theoretically and empirically related to worry – trait anxiety, anxiety sensitivity, and depression – might better account for the observed relationship between worry and physical health status. Participants completed measures of trait worry, trait anxiety, anxiety sensitivity, depression symptom severity, and health status. Results indicated that worry serves as a proxy risk factor for health status through the influence of trait anxiety and depressive symptoms, with both of these variables being related to mental health status, and only trait anxiety being related to physical health status. Anxiety sensitivity did not explain the relationship between trait worry and either type of health status. Theoretical and clinical implications are discussed.

Anxiety sensitivity and speech trait anxiety as predictors of state anxiety during public speaking

1998 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 417-429 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer D. Mladenka ◽  
Chris R. Sawyer ◽  
Ralph R. Behnke
Keyword(s):  
Trait Anxiety ◽  
Anxiety Sensitivity ◽  
State Anxiety ◽  
Public Speaking

Panic disorder and health-related quality of life: The predictive roles of anxiety sensitivity and trait anxiety

2015 ◽  
Vol 225 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 157-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eun-Ho Kang ◽  
Borah Kim ◽  
Ah Young Choe ◽  
Jun-Yeob Lee ◽  
Tai Kiu Choi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Panic Disorder ◽  
Trait Anxiety ◽  
Anxiety Sensitivity ◽  
Health Related Quality ◽  
Related Quality ◽  
Health Related

Anxiety in Children — The Importance of the Anxiety Sensitivity Factor

2003 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-158
Author(s):  
Barbara Jones ◽  
Erica Frydenberg
Keyword(s):  
Anxiety Disorders ◽  
Trait Anxiety ◽  
Anxiety Sensitivity ◽  
Anxiety Symptoms ◽  
Primary School Children ◽  
Sensitivity Factor ◽  
High Anxiety ◽  
High Trait ◽  
High Trait Anxiety ◽  
High Level

Anxiety sensitivity, the fear of anxiety-related bodily sensations, is a recently ldentified construct, which has become part of the conceptualisation of anxiety. Evidence in the research literature suggests that adults who have a high level of anxiety sensitivity combined with a high level of the more traditionally recognised trait anxiety reported a significantly higher incidence of anxiety disorders. The aim of the present study was to determine whether a high level of both anxiety sensitivity and trait anxiety in children results in more anxiety symptoms and therefore may be a risk factor for developing anxiety disorders. Anxiety sensitivity, trait anxiety and anxiety symptoms were examined in a sample of 455 primary school children in Grades 3, 4, 5 and 6 at schools in metropolitan, regional and country areas of Victoria, Australia. Results revealed that children who reported high anxiety sensitivity together with high trait anxiety experienced significantly more anxiety symptoms than other children. Significant gender and age differences were also found in relation to anxiety sensitivity, trait anxiety and anxiety symptoms. Anxiety disorders are debilitating and interfere with normal development. If children with a predisposition to developing anxiety disorders could be identified as those who report high anxiety sensitivity together with high trait anxiety then early intervention could prevent the onset of anxiety disorders in adolescence or adulthood.

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