Summary
Introduction:
This text discusses a study examining the role of anxiety sensitivity as a moderator in the relationship between fatigue severity and e-cigarette expectancies among adult e-cigarette users. The study found that anxiety sensitivity significantly moderated the relationship between fatigue severity and positive outcome expectancies for e-cigarette use.
Key Points:
* The study used a cross-sectional design with 525 adult e-cigarette users.
* Fatigue severity and anxiety sensitivity were measured using the Fatigue Severity Scale (Krupp et al., 1989) and the anxiety Sensitivity Index-III (Taylor et al., 2007), respectively.
* The Smoking Consequences for Electronic Cigarettes (SCq-EC; harrell et al., 2015) was used to assess both positive and negative e-cigarette outcome expectancies.
* The study found that anxiety sensitivity significantly moderated the relationship between fatigue severity and positive outcome expectancies for e-cigarette use.
* The joint effect of anxiety sensitivity and fatigue severity significantly predicted positive expectancies for e-cigarette use.
* Simple slope analyses revealed that the association between fatigue severity and positive expectancies was statistically significant for those with lower and higher levels of anxiety sensitivity.
* The JN technique indicated that fatigue severity was significantly associated with positive expectancies for e-cigarette use among those with an anxiety sensitivity score of 7.55 or higher.
* There was no significant interaction between fatigue severity and anxiety sensitivity in terms of negative expectancies for e-cigarette use.
Main Message:
The study suggests that interventions should work to decrease anxiety sensitivity as a therapeutic strategy for adult e-cigarette users with heightened fatigue symptoms. Reducing anxiety sensitivity in this population may help to change positive expectancies for e-cigarette use, which could potentially lead to a reduction in e-cigarette use.
Citation
Manning K, Garey L, Viana aG, Smit T, Zvolensky MJ. The moderating role of anxiety sensitivity in terms of fatigue severity and e-cigarette use expectancies. Journal of health psychology. 2021;26(14):2676-2687. doi:10.1177/1359105320926534
