Disgust Vulnerability and Symptoms of Contamination-Based OCD: Descriptive Tests of Incremental Specificity

Behavior Therapy

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 475-490

  Olatunji, Bunmi O ^a   Moretz, Melanie W ^b   Wolitzky Taylor, Kate B ^c   McKay, Dean ^b   McGrath, Patrick B ^d   Ciesielski, Bethany G ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISGUST; DISGUST PROPENSITY AND SENSITIVITY SCALE; EMOTION; FEAR; FEMALE; HAND WASHING; HUMAN; MALE; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PADUA INVENTORY; POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE AFFECTIVITY SCHEDULE; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PHOBIC DISORDERS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 78049254377     PISSN: 00057894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beth.2009.11.005     Document Type: Article

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