Anxiety sensitivity and menstrual cycle reactivity: Psychophysiological and self-report differences

Sigmon, Sandra T.; Fink, Christine M.; Rohan, Kelly J.; Hotovy, Lisa A.

doi:10.1016/0887-6185(96)00019-9

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“…Our findings seem to suggest that the learning history origins of anxiety sensitivity may be solely rooted in experiences involving anxiety symptoms. The present finding may be reconciled with other studies that have noted the relationship between the anxiety sensitivity and other distressing conditions such as menstrual distress (Sigmon et al 1996), hypochondriasis (Watt and Stewart 2000), and back pain (Asmundson and Norton 1995). It is interesting to note that all the conditions mentioned have associations with anxiety.…”

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The Role of Early Experience and Cognitive Vulnerability: Presenting a Unified Model of the Etiology of Panic

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Cognitive vulnerability models have been developed to explicate the etiology of panic and other anxiety disorders. This study takes a step forward by presenting a unified vulnerability model that incorporates a continuum of proximal and distal factors involved in the etiology of panic. The present study tested distal elements of the model, including childhood histories of vicarious and instrumental learning, and cognitive constructs such as anxiety sensitivity and perceived control. Our study found that parental modeling of the dangerousness of anxiety symptoms accounted for more model variance than from direct experiences with arousal-reactive symptoms or from parental reinforcement of the child's own sick role behavior when experiencing arousal reactive symptoms. We found that parental modeling independently predicted model variance even when perceived control was included in the model. Our results indicated that low perceived anxiety control and anxiety about bodily symptoms uniquely accounted for variance in the model. Our findings add to the growing body of research and suggest that anxiety about bodily symptoms and low perceived control together may interact to create a stronger distal vulnerability construct for panic than either construct alone in individuals whose childhood caregivers may have modeled fear of anxiety symptoms. The results of this study provide support for the inclusion of distal factors in unified cognitive vulnerability models of panic disorder as well as for future prospective research of these constructs.

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The Role of Early Experience and Cognitive Vulnerability: Presenting a Unified Model of the Etiology of Panic

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“…The data captured the frequency of skin conductance responses (defined as the number of peaks with amplitudes that were !.05 micromohs during the stimulus), a measure that other experiments with the same criterion have linked to levels of arousal (e.g., Kelsey, Ornduff, McCann, & Reiff, 2001;Sigmon, Fink, Rohan, & Hotovy, 1996;Sokhadze, 2007).…”

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Can Video Games Enhance Creativity? Effects of Emotion Generated byDance Dance Revolution

Hutton

Sundar

2010

Creativity Research Journal

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“…To our knowledge, only one study has examined the role of AS physiological responding to anxiety-provoking stimuli during the premenstrual phase (Sigmon et al 1996). Specifically, the authors examined the interaction between AS (high vs. low) and menstrual phase [premenstrual (Days −5 to −1) vs. intermenstrual (Days 8-22)] on psychophysiological and psychological reactivity to anxiety-provoking stimuli (i.e., listening to descriptions of anxiety-provoking vs. neutral scenarios) using a cross-sectional design.…”

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The role of menstrual cycle phase and anxiety sensitivity in catastrophic misinterpretation of physical symptoms during a CO2 challenge

Nillni

Rohan

Zvolensky

2012

Arch Womens Ment Health

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The current study examined the interactive effects of anxiety sensitivity (AS; fear of anxiety and anxiety-related sensations) and menstrual cycle phase (premenstrual phase vs. follicular phase) on panic-relevant responding (i.e., cognitive and physical panic symptoms, subjective anxiety, and skin conductance level). Women completed a baseline session and underwent a 3-minute 10% CO2-enriched air biological challenge paradigm during her premenstrual and follicular menstrual cycle phases. Participants were 55 women with no current or past history of panic disorder recruited from the general community (Mage = 26.18, SD = 8.9) who completed the biological challenge during both the premenstrual and follicular cycle phases. Results revealed that women higher on AS demonstrated increased cognitive panic symptoms in response to the challenge during the premenstrual phase as compared to the follicular phase, and as compared to women lower on AS assessed in either cycle phase. However, the interaction of AS and menstrual cycle phase did not significantly predict physical panic attack symptoms, subjective ratings of anxiety, or skin conductance level in response to the challenge. Results are discussed in the context of premenstrual exacerbations of cognitive, as opposed to physical, panic attack symptoms for high AS women, and the clinical implications of these findings.

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Anxiety sensitivity and menstrual cycle reactivity: Psychophysiological and self-report differences

Cited by 34 publications

References 26 publications

The Role of Early Experience and Cognitive Vulnerability: Presenting a Unified Model of the Etiology of Panic

The Role of Early Experience and Cognitive Vulnerability: Presenting a Unified Model of the Etiology of Panic

Can Video Games Enhance Creativity? Effects of Emotion Generated byDance Dance Revolution

The role of menstrual cycle phase and anxiety sensitivity in catastrophic misinterpretation of physical symptoms during a CO2 challenge

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