Disgust- and anxiety-based emotional reasoning in non-clinical fear of vomiting

Autor: Johan Verwoerd, Wiljo J. P. J. van Hout, Peter J. de Jong
Přispěvatelé: Clinical Psychology and Experimental Psychopathology
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 50, 83-89. Elsevier
ISSN: 1873-7943
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Popis: Background and objectives Emotional reasoning has been described as a dysfunctional tendency to use subjective responses to make erroneous inferences about threatening outcomes in objectively safe situations (e.g., ”If I feel anxious/disgusted, there must be danger/risk of becoming ill”). Prior studies found evidence for anxiety-based emotional reasoning (ER) in several anxiety disorders as well as disgust-based ER in healthy individuals scoring above the clinical cut-off on a measure of contamination fear. The current study tested whether disgust- and anxiety-based ER might be involved in fear of vomiting, a phobic disorder in which both fear/anxiety and disgust are assumed to play an important role. Methods Non-clinical participants scoring high (>75%; n = 35) and low (
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