Anxiety sensitivity, distress intolerance, and negative interpretation bias strengthen the relationship between trait anxiety and depersonalization.

ABSTRACT:

Background objectives

Depersonalization is common in anxiety disorders, but little is known about factors that influence co-occurring anxiety and depersonalization.

Design

We investigated trait moderators of the relationships between state and trait anxiety and depersonalization to better understand their co-occurrence and to identify potential points of intervention.

Methods

Adults recruited on Amazon Mechanical Turk (N = 303) completed two computer tasks designed to increase variability in state anxiety and depersonalization as well as several self-report questionnaires.

Results

As hypothesized, anxiety positively predicted depersonalization at both a state level and trait level. Moreover, as hypothesized, the trait anxiety-trait depersonalization rela

SUBMITTER: French NJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8920942 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature