Anxiety sensitivity, anxiety frequency and the prediction of fearfulness |
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| Authors: | S Reiss R A Peterson D M Gursky R J McNally |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60680, U.S.A.;2. University of Health Sciences, The Chicago Medical School, North Chicago, IL 60064, U.S.A.;1. University of Houston, Department of Psychology, Houston, TX, USA;2. Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Providence, RI, USA;3. The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Psychology and Institute for Mental Health Research, Austin, TX, USA;4. Southern Methodist University, Department of Psychology, Dallas, TX, USA;5. Boston University, Department of Psychology, Boston, MA, USA;6. University of California, San Diego, Department of Family & Preventive Medicine, San Diego, CA, USA;7. Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA, USA;8. The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Department of Behavioral Science, Houston, TX, USA;1. Ohio University, 200 Porter Hall, Athens, OH 45701, United States;2. Florida State University, 1107 West Call St, Tallahassee, FL 32306, United States;1. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States;2. Rogers Memorial Hospital, Oconomowoc, WI, United States |
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| Abstract: | A distinction is proposed between anxiety (frequency of symptom occurrence) and anxiety sensitivity (beliefs that anxiety experiences have negative implications). In Study 1, a newly-constructed Anxiety Sensitivity Index (ASI) was shown to have sound psychometric properties for each of two samples of college students. The important finding was that people who tend to endorse one negative implication for anxiety also tend to endorse other negative implications. In Study 2, the ASI was found to be especially associated with agoraphobia and generally associated with anxiety disorders. In Study 3, the ASI explained variance on the Fear Survey Schedule—II that was not explained by either the Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale or a reliable Anxiety Frequency Checklist. In predicting the development of fears, and possibly other anxiety disorders, it may be more important to know what the person thinks will happen as a result of becoming anxious than how often the person actually experiences anxiety. Implications are discussed for competing views of the ‘fear of fear’. |
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