ArticleJournal of affective disorders2021
Anxiety sensitivity prospectively predicts pandemic-related distress.
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- Anxiety Sensitivity in the Perinatal Period: A Scoping Review.Mental health & prevention · 2025Article
- Anxiety sensitivity and COVID-19 mental health, fatigue, and well-being: a longitudinal examination among adults from the United States during March-October 2020.Cognitive behaviour therapy · 2024Article
- Assessment of anxiety in children during the COVID-19 pandemic.Annals of the Child Neurology Society · 2024Article
- The anxiety response of patients with severe psychiatric disorders to the recent public health crisis.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- Prediction of COVID-19-related distress: the role of anxiety and resiliency.Aging & mental health · 2023Article
- Interoceptive anxiety-related processes: Importance for understanding COVID-19 and future pandemic mental health and addictive behaviors and their comorbidity.Behaviour research and therapy · 2022Review
- Pandemic Fatigue and Anxiety Sensitivity as Associated Factors With Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms Among University Students in South Korea During the Prolonged COVID-19 Pandemic.International journal of public health · 2022Article
- Managing life during the pandemic: communication strategies, mental health, and the ultimate toll of the COVID-19Turkish journal of medical sciences · 2021Review
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Abstract
backgroundAnxiety sensitivity (AS) is a well-studied transdiagnostic risk construct that is believed to amplify responses to many forms of stress. The COVID-19 pandemic is a broad stressor with significant physical and social threats. In the current study, we were interested in ascertaining the degree to which AS would relate to distress and disability in the context of COVID-19. We hypothesized that AS would be associated with increased distress and disability. Moreover, we hypothesized that AS would be uniquely predictive while controlling for other relevant risk factors such as age, race, and perceived local COVID-19 infection rates.
methodParticipants (N = 249) were U.S. adults assessed using online data resourcing and re-assessed one month later.
resultsAt the first time point, during the beginning phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, AS was significantly related to COVID-19 distress and disability with a moderate effect size. AS was longitudinally associated with higher COVID-19 worry and depression. LIMITATIONS: Our findings are limited by the use of a relatively small online sample. Additionally, assessment of pre-pandemic and post-pandemic symptoms and functioning would be beneficial for future research.
conclusionsTaken together, the current study provided evidence consistent with AS as a causal risk factor for the development of distress and depression during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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