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Does disgust increase parasympathetic activation in individuals with a history of fainting? A psychophysiological analysis of disgust stimuli with and without blood-injection-injury association.
J Anxiety Disord. 2012 Dec; 26(8):849-58.JA

Abstract

People with blood-injection-injury fear can faint when being confronted with blood, injections or injuries. Page (1994) holds that people with blood-injury phobia faint, because they are disgust sensitive and disgust facilitates fainting by eliciting parasympathetic activity. We tested the following two hypotheses: (1) Disgusting pictures elicit more disgust in blood-injection-injury-anxious people with a history of fainting than they do in controls. (2) Disgust causes parasympathetic activation. Subjects were 24 participants with high blood-injection-injury fear and a history of fainting in anxiety relevant situations and 24 subjects with average blood-injection-injury fear and no fainting history. We analyzed self-reported feelings of disgust, anxiety and faintness and reactions in heart rate, skin conductance, blood pressure and respiratory sinus arrhythmia during the confrontation with disgusting pictures with and without blood content. We did not find any evidence that the blood-injection-injury anxious subjects were more disgust sensitive than the control subjects and we also did not find any evidence that disgust elicits parasympathetic activation.

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Vossbeck-Elsebusch AN
Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Münster, Institut für Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie, Fliednerstraβe 21, 48149 Münster, Germany. annavoss@uni-muenster.de
Steinigeweg K
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Vögele C
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Gerlach AL
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MeSH

AdultAnxietyEmotionsFearFemaleHumansInjectionsMaleParasympathetic Nervous SystemPhobic DisordersSurveys and QuestionnairesSyncope

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Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Language

eng

PubMed ID

23023164

Citation

Vossbeck-Elsebusch, Anna N., et al. "Does Disgust Increase Parasympathetic Activation in Individuals With a History of Fainting? a Psychophysiological Analysis of Disgust Stimuli With and Without Blood-injection-injury Association." Journal of Anxiety Disorders, vol. 26, no. 8, 2012, pp. 849-58.
Vossbeck-Elsebusch AN, Steinigeweg K, Vögele C, et al. Does disgust increase parasympathetic activation in individuals with a history of fainting? A psychophysiological analysis of disgust stimuli with and without blood-injection-injury association. J Anxiety Disord. 2012;26(8):849-58.
Vossbeck-Elsebusch, A. N., Steinigeweg, K., Vögele, C., & Gerlach, A. L. (2012). Does disgust increase parasympathetic activation in individuals with a history of fainting? A psychophysiological analysis of disgust stimuli with and without blood-injection-injury association. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 26(8), 849-58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2012.07.003
Vossbeck-Elsebusch AN, et al. Does Disgust Increase Parasympathetic Activation in Individuals With a History of Fainting? a Psychophysiological Analysis of Disgust Stimuli With and Without Blood-injection-injury Association. J Anxiety Disord. 2012;26(8):849-58. PubMed PMID: 23023164.
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