Specificity of emotional maintenance processes among contamination fears and blood-injection-injury fears

Journal of Anxiety Disorders

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 915-923

  Cisler, Josh M ^a   Olatunji, Bunmi O ^b   Sawchuk, Craig N ^c   Lohr, Jeffrey M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Anxiety sensitivity; Blood injection injury; Contamination fears; Disgust

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BLOOD; DATA ANALYSIS; EMOTIONALITY; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJECTION; INJURY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL STUDENT; PHOBIA; PSYCHOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ADULT; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDERS; BLOOD; EMOTIONS; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PROBABILITY; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 43049170015     PISSN: 08876185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2007.09.006     Document Type: Article

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