Anxiety sensitivity and disgust sensitivity predict blood-injection-injury fears in individuals with dental anxiety.

IF 2 4区心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL

Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2024-01-01 Epub Date: 2023-07-31 DOI:10.1017/S1352465823000310

Jedidiah Siev, Rachel H Sinex, Samantha D Sorid, Evelyn Behar

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Abstract

Background: Anxiety sensitivity (AS) and disgust sensitivity (DS) are transdiagnostic vulnerability factors for anxiety. Both correlate with blood-injection-injury (BII) phobia symptoms in several studies; however, there is ambiguity about their relative contributions, and studies investigating this have relied on unselected samples. Furthermore, although DS reliably predicts BII in studies that do not account for AS, this may be limited to domain-specific DS rather than DS more broadly.

Aims: The aims of this study were to examine AS and DS as separate and simultaneous predictors of BII fears in a sample with a wide range of BII symptoms, and with attention to the specificity of DS to BII-relevant domains.

Method: Fifty-three participants who scored above a clinical threshold on a validated measure of dental anxiety, and who represented a wide range of BII severity, completed measures of AS, DS and BII symptoms.

Results: AS and DS were moderately to strongly correlated with BII severity (r = .40 and .47, p = .004 and <.001), and both independently predicted BII severity when entered as simultaneous predictors (β = .32 and .35, p = .045 and .015). Furthermore, after omitting DS about injections and blood draws, domain-general DS was still moderately correlated with BII severity (r = .33, p = .017). However, domain-general DS did not significantly predict BII severity after accounting for AS (β = .20, p = .164).

Conclusions: AS and DS both predict BII symptoms, and prospective research is warranted to examine them as potential vulnerability factors.

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焦虑敏感性和厌恶敏感性可预测牙科焦虑症患者对血液注射伤害的恐惧。

背景：焦虑敏感性（AS）和厌恶敏感性（DS）是焦虑的跨诊断易感因素。在多项研究中，这两个因素都与血液注射伤害（BII）恐惧症症状相关；然而，它们的相对贡献并不明确，而且调查这一问题的研究依赖于未经选择的样本。此外，虽然在未考虑AS的研究中，DS能可靠地预测BII，但这可能仅限于特定领域的DS，而不是更广泛的DS。目的：本研究的目的是在具有广泛BII症状的样本中，研究AS和DS作为BII恐惧症的单独和同时预测因素，并关注DS对BII相关领域的特异性：方法：53 名在牙科焦虑的有效测量中得分超过临床阈值的参与者完成了 AS、DS 和 BII 症状的测量，这些参与者代表了广泛的 BII 严重程度：结果：AS 和 DS 与 BII 严重程度呈中度至高度相关（r = .40 和 .47, p = .004 和 p = .045 和 .015）。此外，在剔除有关注射和抽血的 DS 后，一般领域 DS 与 BII 严重程度仍有中度相关性（r = .33，p = .017）。然而，在考虑到 AS 后，一般领域 DS 对 BII 严重程度的预测作用并不明显（β = .20，p = .164）：结论：AS 和 DS 都能预测 BII 症状，因此有必要进行前瞻性研究，将它们作为潜在的易感因素加以研究。

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Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL-

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期刊介绍： An international multidisciplinary journal aimed primarily at members of the helping and teaching professions. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy features original research papers, covering both experimental and clinical work, that contribute to the theory, practice and evolution of cognitive and behaviour therapy. The journal aims to reflect and influence the continuing changes in the concepts, methodology, and techniques of behavioural and cognitive psychotherapy. A particular feature of the journal is its broad ranging scope - both in terms of topics and types of study covered. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy encompasses most areas of human behaviour and experience, and represents many different research methods, from randomized controlled trials to detailed case studies.