Anxiety sensitivity, its stability and longitudinal association with severity of anxiety symptoms.

ABSTRACT: Anxiety sensitivity is associated with the onset of panic attacks, anxiety, and other common mental disorders. Anxiety sensitivity is usually seen as a relative stable trait. However, previous studies were inconclusive regarding the longitudinal stability of anxiety sensitivity and differed in study designs and outcomes. The current study examines the stability of anxiety sensitivity over time and its longitudinal associations with severity of anxiety symptoms. Participants from the Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety with and without an anxiety, depressive, or comorbid anxiety-depressive disorder diagnosis were included (N = 2052). Stability in anxiety sensitivity over two year follow-up and the longitudinal association between the change in anxiety sensitivity and change in sever

SUBMITTER: Hovenkamp-Hermelink JHM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6416311 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature