Anxiety sensitivity, or the fear of anxiety sensations, has been implicated in the etiology of anxiety disorders, particularly panic disorder. Recently, inconsistent findings have been reported regarding the latent structure of anxiety sensitivity. Whereas some taxometric studies of anxiety sensitivity have reported evidence of categorical latent structure, others have found evidence of a laten...

BACKGROUND Smartphones are becoming increasingly indispensable in everyday life for most undergraduates in China, and this has been associated with problematic use or addiction. The aim of the current study was to investigate the prevalence of smartphone addiction and the associated factors in male and female undergraduates. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted in 2016 and include...

Negative mood regulation (NMR) expectancies, stress, anxiety, depression and affect intensity were examined by means of self-report questionnaires in 158 volunteers, including 99 clients enrolled in addiction treatment programs. As expected, addicts reported significantly higher levels of stress, anxiety, depression and affect intensity and lower levels of NMR compared to non-addict controls. N...

the aim of this study was to evaluate the mediating role of difficulties in emotion regulation in the relationship between dysfunctional attitudes and anxiety sensitivity among students of the islamic azad university of hamadan. the research method was correlation. the statistical population of this study consisted of all the university students from among which 200 students (120 females, 80 ma...

Studies show a relationship between social appearance anxiety, aggression, and behavioral addictions. However, the smartphone addiction, Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD) has not been investigated. The present study used self-report survey to examine structural relationships IGD. sample comprised 383 Turkish undergraduate students (50.9% male; 49.1% female), all of who played online videogames. de...

Perfectionism, anxiety sensitivity and sleep disturbance are among the main causes of generalizing anxiety disorder. This study aims to compare perfectionism, anxiety sensitivity and sleep disturbance between patients with generalizing anxiety disorder (GAD) and control group. The present study was a cross-sectional and ex-post facto investigation (causal comparative method). Statistical univer...

Past research has demonstrated a strong relationship between threat sensitivity and social anxiety; however, the relationship between reward sensitivity and social anxiety is less clear. Further, the role that emotion regulation (ER) may play in the expression of social anxiety disorder (SAD) is rarely considered. The current study tested whether two emotion regulation strategies (emotional sup...