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The role of cognitions, trait anxiety and disgust sensitivity in generating faintness around blood-injury phobic stimuli.
J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry. 2006 Mar; 37(1):41-52.JB

Abstract

The effects on blood-injury fear and fainting of scripts concerning pain, nausea, and anger and individual differences in trait anxiety and disgust sensitivity were investigated. Eighteen participants were high in disgust sensitivity and trait anxiety, 11 were low in disgust sensitivity but high in trait anxiety, 10 were high in disgust sensitivity but low in trait anxiety, and 16 were low in disgust sensitivity and trait anxiety. Participants were exposed to pain, nausea, and anger scripts during presentation of blood-injury slides. The ability of the scripts to increase symptoms of fear and faintness, on a state version of the Blood-Injection Symptom Scale (BISS; Page, A. C., Bennett, K. S., Carter, O., Smith, J., & Woodmore, K. (1997). Blood-Injection Symptom Scale (BISS): Assessing the structure of phobic symptomatology elicited by blood and injections. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 35, 457-464) were examined. Analyses indicated that individual differences in trait anxiety and disgust sensitivity interact to generate symptoms of faintness when the pain script was read. That is, disgust sensitive and trait anxious participants reported greater faintness relative to other conditions. The implications for theory and treatment of blood-injury-injection phobia are discussed.

Authors+Show Affiliations

Exeter-Kent HA
School of Psychology, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley WA 6009, Australia.
Page AC
No affiliation info available

MeSH

AdultAnxiety DisordersBloodCognitionFemaleHumansMalePhobic DisordersSeverity of Illness IndexSurveys and QuestionnairesSyncopeWounds and Injuries

Pub Type(s)

Journal Article

Language

eng

PubMed ID

16226219

Citation

Exeter-Kent, Holly A., and Andrew C. Page. "The Role of Cognitions, Trait Anxiety and Disgust Sensitivity in Generating Faintness Around Blood-injury Phobic Stimuli." Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, vol. 37, no. 1, 2006, pp. 41-52.
Exeter-Kent HA, Page AC. The role of cognitions, trait anxiety and disgust sensitivity in generating faintness around blood-injury phobic stimuli. J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry. 2006;37(1):41-52.
Exeter-Kent, H. A., & Page, A. C. (2006). The role of cognitions, trait anxiety and disgust sensitivity in generating faintness around blood-injury phobic stimuli. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 37(1), 41-52.
Exeter-Kent HA, Page AC. The Role of Cognitions, Trait Anxiety and Disgust Sensitivity in Generating Faintness Around Blood-injury Phobic Stimuli. J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry. 2006;37(1):41-52. PubMed PMID: 16226219.
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