APS
29th APS Annual Convention · 2017
Feeling Is Believing! Do Emotion Regulation Beliefs and Strategies Explain the Relationship Between Anxiety Sensitivity and Anxiety Symptoms?
- Nancy Bahl
University of Ottawa - Jessica Tutino
University of Ottawa - Cassandra Fehr
University of Ottawa - Allison Ouimet
University of Ottawa
Abstract
We explored whether beliefs about emotions (BE) and emotion regulation (ER) mediated the relationship between anxiety sensitivity and anxiety severity. We found that anxiety sensitivity predicted anxiety symptoms through three pathways 1) directly, 2) indirectly via ER difficulties, and 3) indirectly via maladaptive BE and then ER difficulties.
Emotion
