Increased interoceptive awareness in fear of flying: Sensitivity to suffocation signals

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 49, Issue 6-7, 2011, Pages 427-432

  Vanden Bogaerde, Anouk ^a   Derom, Eric ^a   De Raedt, Rudi ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Attention; Bias; Etiology; Fear of flying; Flight phobia; Interoceptive awareness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BODY SENSATIONS QUESTIONNAIRE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLYING PHOBIA; HUMAN; INTEROCEPTION; MALE; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOBIA; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESPIRATION LOAD; RESPONSE TIME; SELF REPORT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; ANXIETY; ASPHYXIA; AWARENESS; EMOTIONS; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOBIC DISORDERS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 79956093230     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: 1873622X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2011.03.011     Document Type: Article

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