Fear and Disgust Responding to Heterogeneous Blood-Injection-Injury Stimuli: Distinctions from Anxiety Symptoms |
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| Authors: | Bunmi O Olatunji Jeffrey M Lohr Craig N Sawchuk Kelly Patten |
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| Institution: | (1) Vanderbilt University, 301 Wilson Hall, 111 21st Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37203, USA;(2) University of Arkansas, Arkansas, USA;(3) University of Washington School of Medicine, Washington, USA;(4) University of Maine, Maine, USA |
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| Abstract: | Discrepancies exist in the literature regarding the unique role of disgust in Blood-Injection-Injury (BII) phobia. The present
study attempts to clarify the discrepancy using a sample of analogue BII phobics (n = 40) and nonphobics (n = 40) who completed a series of questionnaires and were exposed to blood, mutilation, and injection pictures. The findings
revealed that BII phobics reported greater disgust and contamination fears than nonphobics after controlling for anxious symptoms.
When rating phobia-relevant pictures, BII phobics responded with greater fear and disgust than nonphobics after controlling
for baseline anxiety scores. Furthermore, disgust was the dominant emotional response for BII phobics for the blood and mutilation
stimuli. However, no differences were found between fear and disgust within the BII group when rating injection stimuli. The
implications of these findings for better understanding the potential unique role of disgust in the etiology, maintenance,
and treatment of BII phobia are discussed.
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| Keywords: | Blood-injection-injury Phobia Disgust sensitivity Contamination Disgust Fear |
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