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How neuroticism and disgust influence health anxiety through anxiety sensitivity: a conditional process model

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dc.contributor.advisorPenney, Alexander
dc.contributor.authorStyba-Nelson, Kevin
dc.contributor.authorByam, Layton
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-06T15:05:21Z
dc.date.available2024-08-06T15:05:21Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.descriptionPresented on June 22, 2024 at the 85th Annual Conference of the Canadian Psychological Association held in Ottawa, Ontario.
dc.description.abstractHealth anxiety (HA) is the persistent worry about one’s health or persistent concerns that one might become seriously ill. Previously, HA has been associated with neuroticism, anxiety sensitivity, and disgust. The present study sought to examine if disgust moderates the relationships between neuroticism, anxiety sensitivity, and HA. An undergraduate sample (N = 552) completed online self-report questionnaires of neuroticism and HA. Participants also completed measures of disgust, which contained propensity and sensitivity subscales, as well as anxiety sensitivity, which contained physical, cognitive, and social subscales. Hayes’ (2023) PROCESS macro was used to conduct a conditional process analysis. We found that neuroticism had an indirect effect on HA through both anxiety sensitivity physical and anxiety sensitivity cognitive. Further, for participants with greater disgust sensitivity, there was a larger indirect effect of neuroticism on HA through anxiety sensitivity physical. Overall, these findings support that neuroticism, anxiety sensitivity, and disgust sensitivity are significant factors that contribute to HA. The findings also suggest that therapeutic techniques like interoceptive exposure to internal sensations may be effective strategies to treat HA, as they would be able to target the anxiety and disgust sensitives that underlie HA.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14078/3669
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved
dc.subjecthealth anxiety
dc.subjectanxiety sensitivity
dc.subjectdisgust sensitivity
dc.subjectneuroticism
dc.titleHow neuroticism and disgust influence health anxiety through anxiety sensitivity: a conditional process modelen
dc.typeStudent Presentation

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