A network analysis of culturally relevant anxiety sensitivity and posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in Cambodians.

Transcultural Psychiatry
Devon E HintonTracy W Harachi

Abstract

The Anxiety Sensitivity Index (ASI) measures fears of anxiety-related symptoms based on respondent beliefs about their harmfulness. This is the first network analysis of anxiety sensitivity and PTSD, and the first to explore an addendum of culturally salient fears in such an analysis. The purpose of our study was to test whether relations among PTSD symptoms and facets of anxiety sensitivity, observed clinically, can be visualized by this approach. Using network analysis, we examined in a Cambodian population the relationship of PTSD symptoms to the standard Anxiety Sensitivity Index (ASI) and to an ASI Cambodian Addendum (ASICA) that taps culturally salient fears of somatic symptoms among Cambodians not assessed in the standard ASI. Computing relative importance networks, we found that the ASI subscales, ASICA, and PTSD subscales were strongly interconnected, with the ASICA having the strongest outstrength centrality. In the network analysis of the ASI subscales, disaggregated ASICA, and PTSD subscales, several of the ASICA items had very high outstrength. The results show that fear of mental and physical symptoms of anxiety should be a key part of the evaluation of trauma-related disorder, and that those fears should be targe...Continue Reading

References

Mar 1, 1987·Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry·R J McNally, M Lorenz
Jan 1, 1986·Behaviour Research and Therapy·S ReissR J McNally
Feb 2, 1999·The British Journal of Psychiatry : the Journal of Mental Science·R F MollicaS Tor
Feb 11, 2005·Behaviour Research and Therapy·Anke EhlersMelanie Fennell
Oct 22, 2005·Behaviour Research and Therapy·Devon E HintonRichard J McNally
Aug 8, 2008·Journal of Clinical Psychology·Denny Borsboom
Sep 15, 2009·Social Science & Medicine·Devon E HintonMary-Jo Good
Nov 4, 2009·Psychological Bulletin·Bunmi O Olatunji, Kate B Wolitzky-Taylor
Apr 22, 2010·Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry·Devon E HintonMark H Pollack
Jun 30, 2010·The Behavioral and Brain Sciences·Angélique O J CramerDenny Borsboom
Sep 1, 2002·Transcultural Psychiatry·Devon HintonSophia Sak
Sep 13, 2011·Depression and Anxiety·Devon E Hinton, Roberto Lewis-Fernández
Mar 30, 2013·Annual Review of Clinical Psychology·Denny Borsboom, Angélique O J Cramer
Jun 17, 2014·Journal of Abnormal Psychology·Donald J RobinaughRichard J McNally
Nov 20, 2015·Social Science & Medicine·Bonnie N KaiserDevon E Hinton
Feb 26, 2016·JAMA Psychiatry·Elisabeth H Bos, Rob B K Wanders
Feb 26, 2016·JAMA Psychiatry·Claudia D van BorkuloRobert A Schoevers
Jul 19, 2016·Behaviour Research and Therapy·Richard J McNally
Jan 28, 2017·World Psychiatry : Official Journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA)·Denny Borsboom
Mar 28, 2017·Behavior Research Methods·Sacha EpskampEiko I Fried
Jan 26, 2018·Nature·Marcus R Munafò, George Davey Smith
Jan 1, 2018·Nature·Marcus R Munafò, George Davey Smith

❮ Previous
Next ❯

Software Mentioned

ASICA
Reexper
Physical
Social
R package qgraph
R package bootnet
R package relaimpo

Related Concepts

Related Feeds

Anxiety Disorders

Discover the latest research on anxiety disorders including agoraphobia, panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder here.

© 2021 Meta ULC. All rights reserved