Gender differences in anxiety: The mediating role of sensitivity to unpredictable threat

K Burani, BD Nelson - International Journal of Psychophysiology, 2020 - Elsevier
Anxiety disorders and symptoms disproportionately impact women relative to men, but it is
unclear what mechanism (s) contribute to this phenomenon. The present study examined …

Gender differences in the etiology of anxiety sensitivity: a twin study.

KL Jang, MB Stein, S Taylor… - The journal of gender …, 1999 - europepmc.org
Method Twin pairs completed the Anxiety Sensitivity Index (ASI) using a postal survey
design. The ASI is composed of three factors:(1) fear of anxiety-related somatic …

Coping through avoidance may explain gender disparities in anxiety

G Panayiotou, M Karekla, C Leonidou - Journal of Contextual Behavioral …, 2017 - Elsevier
To-date no models adequately address the higher vulnerability of women to anxiety
pathology, in contrast to other disorders, such as depression where ruminative thinking has …

Greater sustained anxiety but not phasic fear in women compared to men.

C Grillon - Emotion, 2008 - psycnet.apa.org
Startle reflex studies in rodents indicate that female are more reactive than rats in
experimental models of sustained anxiety but not in models of phasic fear (Toufexis, 2007) …

Anxiety sensitivity and the anticipation of predictable and unpredictable threat: Evidence from the startle response and event-related potentials

BD Nelson, A Hodges, G Hajcak… - Journal of Anxiety …, 2015 - Elsevier
There is growing evidence that heightened sensitivity to unpredictable threat is a core
mechanism of dysfunction in anxiety disorders. However, it is unclear whether anxiety …

Increased anxiety during anticipation of unpredictable aversive stimuli in posttraumatic stress disorder but not in generalized anxiety disorder

C Grillon, DS Pine, S Lissek, S Rabin, O Bonne… - Biological …, 2009 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Uncontrollability and unpredictability are key concepts related to re-
experiencing, avoidance, and hypervigilance symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder …

Distinct responses to predictable and unpredictable threat in anxiety pathologies: effect of panic attack

C Grillon, K O'Connell, L Lieberman, G Alvarez… - Biological Psychiatry …, 2017 - Elsevier
Background Delineating specific clinical phenotypes of anxiety disorders is a crucial step
toward better classification and understanding of these conditions. The present study sought …

Impact of panic on psychophysiological and neural reactivity to unpredictable threat in depression and anxiety

L Lieberman, SM Gorka… - Clinical …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Exaggerated anxious responding to unpredictable threat (U-threat) is a core feature of panic
disorder (PD). However, it is unknown whether this abnormality is specific to the diagnosis of …

The effect of anxiety sensitivity and gender on the experience of pain

E Keogh, J Birkby - Cognition & Emotion, 1999 - Taylor & Francis
Anxiety sensitivity is defined as a trait tendency to experience a fear of anxiety-related
sensations. Although closely associated with panic disorder, recent research suggests that …

The relationship of sex and sex role to trait and situationally specific anxiety types

RS Bander, NE Betz - Journal of Research in Personality, 1981 - Elsevier
While considerable research has investigated the relationship of sex and/or sex role to
general or trait anxiety, little is known about their relationship to more specific anxiety types …