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Three hundred participants, including volunteers from an obsessional support group, filled in questionnaires relating to disgust sensitivity, health anxiety, anxiety, fear of death, fear of contamination and obsessionality as part of an investigation into the involvement of disgust sensitivity in types of obsessions. Overall, the data supported the hypothesis that a relationship does exist between disgust sensitivity and the targeted variables. A significant predictive relationship was found between disgust sensitivity and total scores on the obsessive compulsive inventory (OCI; Psychological Assessment 10 (1998) 206) for both frequency and distress of symptomatology. Disgust sensitivity scores were significantly related to health anxiety scores and general anxiety scores and to all the obsessional subscales, with the exception of hoarding. Additionally, multiple regression analyses revealed that disgust sensitivity may be more specifically related to washing compulsions: frequency of washing behaviour was best predicted by disgust sensitivity scores. Washing distress scores were best predicted by health anxiety scores, though disgust sensitivity entered in the second model. It is suggested that further research on the relationship between disgust sensitivity and obsessionality could be helpful in refining the theoretical understanding of obsessions.
Author(s): Thorpe SJ, Patel SP, Simonds LM
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Behaviour Research and Therapy
Year: 2003
Volume: 41
Issue: 12
Pages: 1397-1409
ISSN (print): 0005-7967
ISSN (electronic): 1873-622X
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0005-7967(03)00058-5
DOI: 10.1016/S0005-7967(03)00058-5
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