Anxiety Sensitivity: theory, Research, and Treatment of the Fear of Anxiety (Personality and Clinical Psychology Series)

445 Pages·1999·2.34 MB·English

by  Steven Taylor

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title: Anxiety Sensitivity : Theory, Research, and Treatment of
the Fear of Anxiety
author: Taylor, Steven
publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
isbn10 | asin: 0805828656
print isbn13: 9780805828658
ebook isbn13: 9780585246581
language: English
subject Anxiety sensitivity.
publication date: 1998
lcc: RC531.A638 1998eb
ddc: 616.85/223
subject: Anxiety sensitivity.
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Anxiety Sensitivity
Theory, Research, and Treatment of the Fear of Anxiety

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Anxiety Sensitivity
Theory, Research, and Treatment of the Fear of Anxiety
Edited by
Steven Taylor
University of British Columbia

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Copyright © 1999 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Anxiety sensitivity: theory, research, and treatment of the fear of
anxiety / edited by Steven Taylor.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8058-2865-6 (hardcover: alk. paper)
1. Anxiety sensitivity. I. Taylor, Steven, 1960-
RC531.A638 1998
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CONTENTS
Foreword
Stanley Rachman ix
Preface xi
Part I: Conceptual Foundations
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Theoretical Approaches to the Fear of Anxiety
Richard J. McNally 3
2
The Expectancy Theory of Fear, Anxiety, and Panic: A Conceptual and Empirical
Analysis
Steven Taylor and Ingrid C. Fedoroff 17
3
The Sensitivity Theory of Aberrant Motivation
Steven Reiss 35
Part II: Psychometric Foundations
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Measuring Anxiety Sensitivity
Rolf A. Peterson and Kirsten Plehn 61

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Dimensions of Anxiety Sensitivity
Richard E. Zinbarg, Jan Mohlman, and Nicholas N. Hong 83
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Anxiety Sensitivity and Emotional Disorders: Psychometric Studies and their
Theoretical Implications
Brian J. Cox, Sharon C. Borger, and Murray W. Enns 115
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Anxiety Sensitivity and the Structure of Personality
Scott O. Lilienfeld 149
Part III: New Research on Basic Mechanisms: Causes and Consequences of Anxiety
Sensitivity
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Anxiety Sensitivity and Information-Processing Biases for Threat
Richard J. McNally 183
9
Biological Aspects of Anxiety Sensitivity: Is it All in the Head?
Murray B. Stein and Ronald M. Rapee 199
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Prospective Evaluations of Anxiety Sensitivity
Norman B. Schmidt 217
Part IV: New Directions in Anxiety Sensitivity Research
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Anxiety Sensitivity in Children
Wendy K. Silverman and Carl F. Weems 239
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Anxiety Sensitivity and Chronic Pain: Empirical Findings, Clinical Implications, and
Future Directions
Gordon J.G. Asmundson 269

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Anxiety Sensitivity and Substance Use and Abuse
Sherry H. Stewart, Sarah Barton Samoluk, and Alan B. MacDonald 287
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The Impact of Treatment on Anxiety Sensitivity
Michael W. Otto and Noreen A. Reilly-Harrington 321
Part V: Conclusions
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Anxiety Sensitivity: Progress, Prospects, and Challenges
Steven Taylor, Brian Rabian, and Ingrid C. Fedoroff 339
Author Index 355
Subject Index 367

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FOREWORD
Stanley Rachman
University of British Columbia
Sensitivity to stress is a perennial and important concept, embedded in all diathesis theories. Plainly, people vary in
their sensitivity to stress. In any potentially stressful situation, some people will endure without difficulty while
others show signs of acute distress. That said, we need to find out whether the sensitivity is specific to the
particular stressor or whether it is a general predisposition, likely to become manifest in a range of situations.
Another possibility is that many people harbor a general sensitivity within which specific susceptibilities are
nested.
In time, these questions give rise to technical problems: How can we recognize and measure general and specific
sensitivities? Is sensitivity unidimensional? How does it develop? Can we construct reliable and valid test-beds
without straying over ethical borders? Can we infer sensitivity from the emergence of psychopathology? and so
forth. These and many related matters are analyzed and discussed in this timely and useful compendium cum
progress report on anxiety sensitivity.
From the time of its introduction by Reiss and McNally in 1985, the concept of anxiety sensitivitythe fear of
anxiety-related sensationsattracted active attention. In part this attention arose from a recognition that the idea of
variable sensitivities has not been adequately explored, even though progress has been made, as in the concepts of
neuroticism, trait anxiety, and so forth. A second

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