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Michael J. Zvolensky
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Predictors of Self-Reported Anxiety and Panic Symptoms: An Evaluation of Anxiety Sensitivity, Suffocation Fear, Heart-Focused Anxiety, and Breath-Holding Duration
The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which anxiety-related individual difference variables predict anxious responding when individuals experience aversive bodily sensations. Thu...
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Behavior Therapy
The term behavior therapy was first introduced in the 1950s to refer to the application of interventions based on an understanding of learning principles. At the time of the inception of behavior therapy, the ...
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Differential Fear of Cardiopulmonary Sensations in Emergency Room Noncardiac Chest Pain Patients
Fear of bodily sensations has received extensive attention in relation to panic disorder, and more recently, other types of anxiety pathology and chronic pain problems. Extending this work, the present study e...
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Incremental Validity of Perceived Control Dimensions in the Differential Prediction of Interpretive Biases for Threat
This study evaluated whether a diminished perception of control over environmental and interoceptive events differentially predicted interpretive biases for threat for ambiguous scenarios. The sample had 95 pa...
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Anxiety Sensitivity Dimensions in the Prediction of Body Vigilance and Emotional Avoidance
The present study evaluated 2 interrelated hypotheses concerning the relation between specific anxiety sensitivity dimensions and how one responds to bodily sensations in a population with no known history of ...
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Heart-Focused Anxiety and Chest Pain in Postangiography Medical Patients
The present cross-sectional study sought to examine the extent to which heart-focused anxiety is associated with the co-occurrence of coronary artery disease (CAD) and a history of regular smoking in a sample ...
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Pain-Related Anxiety in the Prediction of Chronic Low-Back Pain Distress
This study evaluated the relation of particular aspects of pain-related anxiety to characteristics of chronic pain distress in a sample of 76 individuals with low-back pain. Consistent with contemporary cognit...
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Evaluating the Role of Anxiety Sensitivity in Smoking Outcome Expectancies Among Regular Smokers
The present study evaluated the association between the lower-order facets of anxiety sensitivity construct (physical, mental incapacitation, and social concerns) and positive (expectancies about negative affe...
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Measuring experiential avoidance: A preliminary test of a working model
The present study describes the development of a short, general measure of experiential avoidance, based on a specific theoretical approach to this process. A theoretically driven iterative exploratory analysi...
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Exploring Basic Processes Underlying Acceptance and Mindfulness
We know of only two unpublished case reports examining the use of ACT with childhood anxiety disorders. In the first case, ACT was used to treat anxiety-based school refusal behavior in an 11-year-old boy, wit...
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Anxiety Sensitivity and Anxious Responding to Bodily Sensations: A Test among Adolescents Using a Voluntary Hyperventilation Challenge
This study examined the general factor and lower-order facets of the Childhood Anxiety Sensitivity Index (CASI; W. K. Silverman, W. Flesig, B. Rabian, & R. A. Peterson, 1991) in relation to anxious and fearful...
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Marijuana Use Among Daily Tobacco Smokers: Relationship to Anxiety-Related Factors
The present investigation evaluated the incremental validity of regular marijuana use and frequency of such use in relation to anxiety and depressive symptoms and perceived health among young adult tobacco smo...
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Anxiety Sensitivity Moderates Relations Among Tobacco Smoking, Panic Attack Symptoms, and Bodily Complaints in Adolescents
The present study evaluated associations among smoking and anxiety sensitivity (fear of anxiety and anxiety related sensations) in predicting panic attack symptomatology, somatic complaints, and depressive sym...
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Incremental Validity of Co**-oriented Marijuana Use Motives in the Prediction of Affect-based Psychological Vulnerability
The present investigation examined whether co**-oriented motives to use marijuana, as measured by the Marijuana Motives Measure (MMM; Simons et al. in J. Couns. Psychol. 45:265–273, 1998), were uniquely rela...
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Tobacco Use and Panic Psychopathology: Current Status and Future Directions
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Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Co-morbid Panic Psychopathology and Tobacco Use and Dependence
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An Examination of Anxiety Sensitivity as a Moderator of the Relationship Between Smoking Level and Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms among Trauma-Exposed Adults
The present investigation tested the prediction that global and lower-order factors of anxiety sensitivity (AS) would moderate the relationship between cigarette smoking level and posttraumatic stress symptom ...
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The Interactive Effects of Anxiety Sensitivity and Emotion Dysregulation in Predicting Anxiety-related Cognitive and Affective Symptoms
The present investigation examined the main and interactive effects of anxiety sensitivity (AS) and emotion dysregulation in predicting anxiety-relevant cognitive and affective symptoms among a community-based...
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The Role of Mindful Attention in Regard to the Relation Between Negative Affect Reduction Outcome Expectancies and Emotional Vulnerability Among Adult Cigarette Smokers
The present investigation examined the role of mindful attention in regard to the relation between negative affect reduction smoking outcome expectancies and anxious arousal and anhedonic depression symptoms a...
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Cigarette Smoking
There are currently about 1 billion cigarette smokers worldwide. Despite legal regulation against the sale of cigarettes to persons under the age of 18 years, smoking among adolescents is nonetheless highly pr...
