ABSTRACT
The COVID-19 pandemic has been described as a collective trauma both in the U.S. and the world at large (Watson et al., 2020), requiring individuals and systems to rapidly adapt and re-adapt to constant change. Research literature has established the pandemic has resulted in numerous negative mental health consequences with anxiety and associated constructs being the most common response to the pandemic (Goldbach et al., 2020;Wang et al., 2020). The current study sought to identify the relationship between resilience, anxiety sensitivity, and health anxiety during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, the present study utilized moderation analyses to examine the influence of resilience on the relationship between anxiety sensitivity and health anxiety. At this time, no known study has examined resilience as a moderator for anxiety sensitivity and health anxiety in terms of the COVID-19 pandemic. Results of the study indicated resilience significantly moderated the relationship between physical and cognitive anxiety sensitivity and health anxiety, but this was not the case with the social anxiety sensitivity subscale. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)