{"doi":"10.4148/2572-1836.1086","title":"Anxiety Sensitivity and Fast-Food Ordering Habits Among Black Adults","abstract":"BACKGROUND: Black adults experience high rates of overweight/obesity, which is linked to chronic diseases and is exacerbated by fast-food consumption. Anxiety sensitivity, a relative stable fear of anxiety-related sensations, has been linked to high caloric intake. Here, we examine whether anxiety sensitivity is associated with fast-food ordering habits within a convenience sample of Black adults. METHODS: =49.3±11.6; 84.8% overweight/obese), 107 (86.3%) reported eating from a fast-food restaurant in the last month. Participants completed the Anxiety Sensitivity-Index 3, which has a total score and physical, cognitive, and social concerns subscales. Investigator-generated items queried frequency of ordering \"supersized\" quantities of fast-food (e.g., cheeseburgers, fries), and healthy items (e.g., salads, oatmeal, yogurt), respectively, from \"never\" to \"always.\" Covariate-adjusted ordinal logistic regression models were used to assess relations between measures of interest. RESULTS: Anxiety sensitivity (total and physical concerns) was associated with greater odds of more frequently ordering supersized unhealthy fast-food; and anxiety sensitivity (total and cognitive concerns) was associated with lower odds of more frequently ordering healthy items from fast-food restaurants. CONCLUSIONS: Results suggest that adults with greater anxiety sensitivity may engage in fast-food ordering habits that can contribute to the overweight/obesity epidemic. Future studies should replicate results and determine the potential for anxiety sensitivity-reduction interventions to affect dietary choices that contribute to overweight/obesity.","journal":"Health Behavior Research","year":2021,"id":201212,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":7,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9239,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2021-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":305419,"name":"Tzu-An Chen","orcid":"0000-0003-4312-7258","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":376013,"name":"Michael J. Zvolensky","orcid":"0000-0002-1869-0906","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":397960,"name":"Lorna H. McNeill","orcid":"0000-0003-1594-6301","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":503478,"name":"Ezemenari M. Obasi","orcid":"0000-0003-2142-952X","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":397959,"name":"Lorraine R. Reitzel","orcid":"0000-0002-7165-5720","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":779560,"name":"Vijay Nitturi","orcid":"0000-0002-8310-3077","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":81,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-18T23:50:52.535403Z","pmid":"34541461","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}