Browsing by Author "Mayorga, Angelina"
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Item Anxiety Sensitivity and Smoking Behavior Among Trauma-Exposed Daily Smokers: The Explanatory Role of Smoking-Related Avoidance and Inflexibility(2017-10-12) Jones, Jenna; Mayorga, Angelina; Bakhshaie, JafarWork suggests anxiety sensitivity (AS) plays an important role in understanding the smoking-trauma association. AS is thought to serve as a transdiagnostic risk factor in both smoking and trauma, resulting in poorer outcomes in both domains. Cognitive inflexibility reflects a lack of ability to disengage attention from one task to another. In relation to smoking, a decrease in smoking-specific avoidance and inflexibility is associated with increased likelihood of smoking abstinence after treatment. Our aim was to examine whether smoking-specific avoidance and inflexibility explains the relation of AS and smoking severity among trauma-exposed smokers. It was hypothesized AS would have a significant indirect effect within this relation. The findings show empirical evidence of the explanatory effect of smoking-specific avoidance and inflexibility in the relation between AS and smoking severity among trauma-exposed smokers. This relation impacted number of cigarettes per day, years of being a daily smoker, number of failed quit attempts, and even heaviness of smoking index.Item The Differential Role of Anxiety Sensitivity and its Components in the Relation Between Emotional Nonacceptance and Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms and Disorders among Latinos in Primary Care(2017-10-12) Lopez, Karina; Mayorga, Angelina; Bakhshaie, JafarLatinos are the second fastest growing minority group in the United States. Unfortunately, rates of depression and anxiety symptoms among Latinos may be as much as twice the rate of non-Latino White Americans. Due to cultural values such as emotional restraint and perceptions of emotional expression as a sign of weakness, emotional nonacceptance could play a major role in development and maintenance of mood and anxiety problems among the Latino population. Hypothesis. Anxiety sensitivity may explain the associations between emotional nonacceptance and symptoms of anxious arousal, social anxiety, depression and other mood/anxiety disorders. The sub-scales of AS: physical, cognitive and social concerns were expected to be mediators to anxious arousal, depressive symptoms and social anxiety symptoms respectively. AS was found to explain the relations between emotional nonacceptance and all dependent variables: social anxiety, anxious arousal, depressive symptoms, and number of mood/anxiety disorder diagnoses. AS may be an explanatory mechanism in the relation between emotional nonacceptance and a relatively broad array of anxiety and depressive symptoms and clinical disorders. This project was completed with contributions from Monica Garza from Legacy Community Health, Houston.