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Affect intensity: Association with anxious and fearful responding to bodily sensations

Affect intensity: Association with anxious and fearful responding to bodily sensations
Affect intensity: Association with anxious and fearful responding to bodily sensations
The present investigation evaluated affect intensity in regard to anxious and fearful responding to a voluntary hyperventilation paradigm. Participants were 90 young adults without a history of Axis I psychopathology or nonclinical panic attacks. The incremental validity of affect intensity was examined relative to gender, negative affectivity, anxiety sensitivity, and anticipatory anxiety. As hypothesized, affect intensity significantly and incrementally predicted the perceived intensity of post-challenge panic-relevant physical and cognitive symptoms but not physiological arousal. Findings are discussed in relation to better understanding the role of affect intensity as a potential risk factor for panic-related problems.

affect intensity, anxiety, bodily sensations, negative affectivity, biological challenge
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Vujanovic, Anka A.
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Zvolensky, Michael J.
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Gibson, Laura E.
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Lynch, Thomas R.
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Vujanovic, Anka A., Zvolensky, Michael J., Gibson, Laura E., Lynch, Thomas R., Leen-Feldner, Ellen W., Feldner, Matthew T. and Bernstein, Amit (2005) Affect intensity: Association with anxious and fearful responding to bodily sensations. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 20 (2), 192-206. (doi:10.1016/j.janxdis.2004.12.002). (PMID:16464704)

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The present investigation evaluated affect intensity in regard to anxious and fearful responding to a voluntary hyperventilation paradigm. Participants were 90 young adults without a history of Axis I psychopathology or nonclinical panic attacks. The incremental validity of affect intensity was examined relative to gender, negative affectivity, anxiety sensitivity, and anticipatory anxiety. As hypothesized, affect intensity significantly and incrementally predicted the perceived intensity of post-challenge panic-relevant physical and cognitive symptoms but not physiological arousal. Findings are discussed in relation to better understanding the role of affect intensity as a potential risk factor for panic-related problems.

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Published date: 30 January 2005
Keywords: affect intensity, anxiety, bodily sensations, negative affectivity, biological challenge

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Local EPrints ID: 194171
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/194171
ISSN: 0887-6185
PURE UUID: 82706a70-dbee-48ee-9352-bfe28a941898
ORCID for Thomas R. Lynch: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-1270-6097

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Date deposited: 25 Jul 2011 13:56
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:32

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Author: Anka A. Vujanovic
Author: Michael J. Zvolensky
Author: Laura E. Gibson
Author: Thomas R. Lynch ORCID iD
Author: Ellen W. Leen-Feldner
Author: Matthew T. Feldner
Author: Amit Bernstein

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