Does stress perception mediate the relationship between anxiety sensitivity and anxiety and depression symptoms?
Does stress perception mediate the relationship between anxiety sensitivity and anxiety and depression symptoms?
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DOI：
10.1080/0003379042000221421
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发表时间：
2004-06-01
影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Calamari, JE
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作者：
Isyanov, EV;Calamari, JE
焦虑敏感性（AS），即对焦虑相关症状的恐惧，与焦虑症的发展密切相关，并与其他类型的精神病理学有关。然而，人们对AS可能引发痛苦的过程知之甚少。作为理解机制的初步步骤，使用横断面设计在非临床样本中评估压力感知的中介作用。我们进行了特质焦虑（TA）和AS之间的比较，以测试是否有任何观察到的关系是特定的焦虑恐惧（AS）或是否协会可以解释更一般的结构。感知压力介导的AS之间的关系，和特定的AS组件，恐慌症状和抑郁症，但不是在TA的统计控制的分析。知觉压力没有被发现介导TA和恐慌症状或抑郁症之间的关系，虽然TA，知觉压力和抑郁症高度相关。虽然增量效度在本研究中没有得到证明，压力感知可能是一个重要的过程，通过AS放大反应，要求生活环境和进一步的研究是必要的。
Anxiety sensitivity (AS), the fear of anxiety-related symptoms, is strongly implicated in the development of anxiety disorders and is associated with other types of psychopathology. Little is known, though, about the processes through which AS might precipitate distress. As a preliminary step in understanding mechanisms, the mediational role of stress perception was evaluated in a nonclinical sample using a cross sectional design. We conducted a comparison between trait anxiety (TA) and AS to test whether any observed relations were specific to fear of anxiety (AS) or whether associations could be explained by the more general construct. Perceived stress mediated the relation between AS, and specific AS components, and panic symptoms and depression; but not in analyses where TA was statistically controlled. Perceived stress was not found to mediate the relation between TA and panic symptoms or depression, although TA, perceived stress and depression were highly correlated. Although incremental validity was not demonstrated in the present study, stress perception may be an important process through which AS amplifies reactivity to demanding life circumstances and further study is warranted.