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Anxiety sensitivity, distress intolerance, and negative interpretation bias strengthen the relationship between trait anxiety and depersonalization.
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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 relationship was strengthened by greater anxiety sensitivity; distress intolerance; and negative interpretation bias for anxiety sensations, and for depersonalization sensations. None of these hypothesized trait moderators significantly strengthened the state anxiety-state depersonalization relationship.Conclusions
These findings suggest that, on a trait level, anxiety and depersonalization more frequently co-occur when people catastrophically misinterpret their symptoms or have lower emotional distress tolerance.
SUBMITTER: French NJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8920942 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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Anxiety sensitivity, distress intolerance, and negative interpretation bias strengthen the relationship between trait anxiety and depersonalization.
Anxiety, stress, and coping 20210915 4
<h4>Background objectives</h4>Depersonalization is common in anxiety disorders, but little is known about factors that influence co-occurring anxiety and depersonalization.<h4>Design</h4>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.<h4>Methods</h4>Adults recruited on Amazon Mechanical Turk (<i>N</i> = 303) completed two computer tasks designed t ...[more]