“…Anxiety sensitivity represents a tendency to interpret physical, psychological, and social outcomes as distressing and dangerous (Osuji et al, 2022). Anxiety sensitivity is an individual differences construct where an individual fears physical symptoms that are associated with anxiety arousal (increased heart rate, shortness of breath, dizziness) and is generally derived from the belief that these symptoms lead to potentially harmful social, cognitive, and physical outcomes (López-Núñez et al, 2021). In other words, the propensity for fear, catastrophic interpretation of anxiety symptoms, is one of the etiological factors that maintain and perpetuate most mental disorders, especially anxiety disorders, acting to increase anxiety responses and create fear of provocative stimuli.…”