Disgust Sensitivity and Psychopathological Symptoms: Distinctions from Harm Avoidance |
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| Authors: | Bunmi O Olatunji Zsolt S Unoka Eszter Beran Bieke David Tom Armstrong |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, 301 Wilson Hall, 111 21st Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37203, USA;(2) Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary;(3) Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary |
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| Abstract: | The present study examined the relationship between disgust sensitivity and symptoms of somatization, obsessive-compulsive
disorder (OCD), interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, anger/hostility, phobic anxiety, paranoid ideation, and psychoticism
in a community sample. Participants (n = 121) completed the Disgust Scale-2, the Symptom Checklist-90, and the harm avoidance subscale of the Temperament and Character
Inventory. Disgust sensitivity was found to be correlated with a broad range of psychopathological symptoms. However, results
also indicated that these correlations were partially mediated by harm avoidance. That is, when controlling for levels of
harm avoidance, the association between disgust sensitivity and psychopathological symptoms was either substantially reduced
or became nonsignificant. These findings suggest that the tendency towards behavioral inhibition to avoid punishment and non-reward
may partially account for the association between disgust sensitivity and a broad range of psychopathological symptoms.
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| Keywords: | Disgust sensitivity Psychopathology Harm avoidance Personality |
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