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Disgust sensitivity and contamination fears in spider and blood-injection-injury phobias.
Behav Res Ther. 2000 Aug; 38(8):753-62.BR

Abstract

Disgust has been implicated in the onset and maintenance of blood-injection-injury (BII) and animal phobias. Research suggests that people with these phobias are characterized by an elevated sensitivity to disgust-evoking stimuli separate from their phobic concerns. The disgust response has been described as the rejection of potential contaminants. Disgust-motivated avoidance of phobic stimuli may therefore be related to fears of contamination or infection. The present study compared BII phobics, spider phobics and nonphobics on two measures of disgust sensitivity and two measures of contamination fears. Positive correlations were found between disgust sensitivity and contamination fear. Specific phobics scored higher than nonphobics on all scales and BII phobics scored higher than spider phobics on contamination fear measures. Furthermore, the contamination fear scales were correlated with the blood phobia measure, but not correlated with the spider phobia measure. The results suggest that while both phobias are characterized by elevated disgust sensitivity, contamination fear is more prominent in BII than spider phobia.

Authors+Show Affiliations

Sawchuk CN
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville 72701, USA. sawchuk@u.washington.edu
Lohr JM
No affiliation info available
Tolin DF
No affiliation info available
Lee TC
No affiliation info available
Kleinknecht RA
No affiliation info available

MeSH

AdolescentAdultAnalysis of VarianceAnimalsAvoidance LearningBloodCase-Control StudiesFearFemaleHumansInjectionsMaleMotivationPhobic DisordersPsychiatric Status Rating ScalesSpiders

Pub Type(s)

Journal Article

Language

eng

PubMed ID

10937424

Citation

Sawchuk, C N., et al. "Disgust Sensitivity and Contamination Fears in Spider and Blood-injection-injury Phobias." Behaviour Research and Therapy, vol. 38, no. 8, 2000, pp. 753-62.
Sawchuk CN, Lohr JM, Tolin DF, et al. Disgust sensitivity and contamination fears in spider and blood-injection-injury phobias. Behav Res Ther. 2000;38(8):753-62.
Sawchuk, C. N., Lohr, J. M., Tolin, D. F., Lee, T. C., & Kleinknecht, R. A. (2000). Disgust sensitivity and contamination fears in spider and blood-injection-injury phobias. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 38(8), 753-62.
Sawchuk CN, et al. Disgust Sensitivity and Contamination Fears in Spider and Blood-injection-injury Phobias. Behav Res Ther. 2000;38(8):753-62. PubMed PMID: 10937424.
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TY - JOUR T1 - Disgust sensitivity and contamination fears in spider and blood-injection-injury phobias. AU - Sawchuk,C N, AU - Lohr,J M, AU - Tolin,D F, AU - Lee,T C, AU - Kleinknecht,R A, PY - 2000/8/11/pubmed PY - 2000/9/2/medline PY - 2000/8/11/entrez SP - 753 EP - 62 JF - Behaviour research and therapy JO - Behav Res Ther VL - 38 IS - 8 N2 - Disgust has been implicated in the onset and maintenance of blood-injection-injury (BII) and animal phobias. Research suggests that people with these phobias are characterized by an elevated sensitivity to disgust-evoking stimuli separate from their phobic concerns. The disgust response has been described as the rejection of potential contaminants. Disgust-motivated avoidance of phobic stimuli may therefore be related to fears of contamination or infection. The present study compared BII phobics, spider phobics and nonphobics on two measures of disgust sensitivity and two measures of contamination fears. Positive correlations were found between disgust sensitivity and contamination fear. Specific phobics scored higher than nonphobics on all scales and BII phobics scored higher than spider phobics on contamination fear measures. Furthermore, the contamination fear scales were correlated with the blood phobia measure, but not correlated with the spider phobia measure. The results suggest that while both phobias are characterized by elevated disgust sensitivity, contamination fear is more prominent in BII than spider phobia. SN - 0005-7967 UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/10937424/Disgust_sensitivity_and_contamination_fears_in_spider_and_blood_injection_injury_phobias_ DB - PRIME DP - Unbound Medicine ER -