Mood regulation expectancies, anxiety sensitivity, and emotional distress

A study was conducted on the relationships between negative mood regulation and anxiety sensitivity and on their ability to serve as predictors of emotional distress to determine the usefulness of integrating behavior-outcome and stimulus-outcome expectancies in emotional distress expectancy models. Using the Beck Depression Inventory and Trait Anxiety Inventory, both expectancy types were found to be independently related to distress. The highest distress levels were observed in subjects who weakly believed that they could control negative moods and strongly believed that anxiety results in more negative consequences.