Anxiety sensitivity and disgust sensitivity interact to predict contamination fears

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 935-946

  Cisler, Josh M ^a   Reardon, John M ^a   Williams, Nathan L ^a   Lohr, Jeffrey M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety sensitivity; Contamination fear; Disgust; OCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846397824     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2006.09.004     Document Type: Article

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