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- The study investigates the roles of anxiety sensitivity and disgust sensitivity in relation to specific phobias, focusing on fear-inducing and disgust-inducing stimuli.
- Findings show that disgust sensitivity is linked to negative reactions across various phobia-related contexts, while anxiety sensitivity primarily relates to fear-based phobias.
- The results support the idea that there's a meaningful distinction between fear-relevant phobias and disgust-relevant phobias, highlighting the unique associations each sensitivity type has with specific phobias.
Article Abstract
Background: Prior theory and research has implicated disgust as relevant to some, but not all phobias.
Aims: The current study examined whether anxiety sensitivity is more relevant to certain specific phobias and whether disgust sensitivity is more relevant to other specific phobias.
Method: Participants (n = 201) completed measures of anxiety sensitivity, disgust sensitivity and measures of aversive reactions in the presence of two fear-relevant stimuli (i.e. heights and small, enclosed spaces) and two disgust-relevant stimuli (i.e. spiders and blood/injury).
Results: Results of multiple linear regression analyses revealed that disgust sensitivity showed significant associations with aversive reactions in all four stimulus domains after controlling for anxiety sensitivity. After controlling for disgust sensitivity, anxiety sensitivity showed associations with the two fear-relevant phobias but not with the two disgust-relevant phobias included in this study. Anxiety sensitivity also showed an association with variance specific to one of the two fear-relevant specific phobias included in the study. Disgust sensitivity also showed associations with variance specific to both of the disgust-relevant phobias included in the study but not with variance specific to either of the fear-relevant specific phobias.
Conclusions: These results provide evidence that the distinction between fear-relevant and disgust-relevant specific phobias is meaningful and also implicate disgust sensitivity as relevant to aversive reactions to all stimuli included in this study.
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