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Disgust Sensitivity and Anxiety Disorder Symptoms: Psychometric Properties of the Disgust Emotion Scale

Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 2006
Recent research has implicated disgust sensitivity in the etiology of specific anxiety disorders. The Disgust Emotion Scale (DES) is a newly developed measure that was designed to improve the assessment of disgust sensitivity. The present study examines the psychometric properties of the DES. Exploratory factor analysis in Study 1 revealed five factors
Olatunji, Bunmi O., Sawchuk, Craig N., de Jong, Peter J., Lohr, Jeffrey M.   +3 more
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The effect of disgust conditioning and disgust sensitivity on appraisals of moral transgressions

Personality and Individual Differences, 2011
Abstract A growing body of research suggests that the experience of disgust increases the severity of moral judgments. In addition, individual difference variables such as Disgust Sensitivity (DS) are associated with differential appraisals of moral transgressions.
Bieke David, Bunmi O. Olatunji
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Assessing intergroup disgust sensitivity: psychometric properties of an adolescent version of the Intergroup Disgust Sensitivity Scale

European Journal of Developmental Psychology
Intergroup disgust sensitivity (ITG-DS) refers to the tendency to experience disgust and revulsion towards ethnic outgroups. Studies in undergraduates and adults from the general population showed that ITG-DS is a strong predictor of interethnic prejudice.
Manila Vannucci, Carlo Chiorri, Federica Stefanelli, Benedetta Emanuela Palladino, Ersilia Menesini   +4 more
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Assessment of Disgust Sensitivity in Children With an Age-Downward Version of the Disgust Emotion Scale

Behavior Therapy, 2012
The present study examined the psychometric properties of the Disgust Emotion Scale for Children (DES-C). Principal components analysis of the DES-C data revealed five factors reflecting disgust toward (a) rotting foods, (b) injection and blood, (c) odors, (d) mutilation and death, and (e) animals, which were largely in keeping with the intended ...
Muris, Peter, Huijding, Jorg, Mayer, Birgit, Langkamp, Marit, Reyhan, Ela, Olatunji, Bunmi   +5 more
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Specificity of disgust sensitivity in the prediction of fear and disgust responding to a brief spider exposure

Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 2008
This study examined the specificity of disgust sensitivity in predicting fear and disgust responses to exposure to a spider. Participants high (n=22) and low (n=28) in spider fear completed self-report measures of disgust sensitivity, contamination fear, anxiety, and negative affect.
Bunmi O, Olatunji, Brett, Deacon
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Influences of disgust sensitivity on hemodynamic responses towards a disgust-inducing film clip

International Journal of Psychophysiology, 2005
The major goal of the present functional magnetic resonance imaging study was to investigate the influence of disgust sensitivity on hemodynamic responses during disgust induction. Fifteen subjects viewed three different film excerpts (duration: 135 s each) with disgust-evoking, threatening and neutral content.
STARK R., SCHIENLE A., SARLO, MICHELA, PALOMBA, DANIELA, WALTER B., VAITL D.   +5 more
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Familial resemblances in disgust sensitivity and animal phobias

Behaviour Research and Therapy, 1993
This paper reports the results of two studies, both of which suggest there are close intrafamilial resemblances between parental disgust sensitivity and various measures of offspring animal phobia. In Study 1, a multiple regression analysis identified parental disgust sensitivity as a primary predictor of offspring animal fear in general (as measured ...
G C, Davey, L, Forster, G, Mayhew
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Sensitivity to Disgust among College Women by Major

Psychological Reports, 1998
260 women undergraduates by chosen major differed in their sensitivity to disgust, with 49 nursing students reporting less than students in several other majors; however, as expected, this was true only in domains related to their intended occupation such as “body products” and “contact with death.”
N C, Sherman, M F, Sherman
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Disgust sensitivity in eating disorders: A preliminary investigation

International Journal of Eating Disorders, 2000
Disgust is a basic emotion that has been relatively neglected in psychiatry in general and in eating disorders in particular. Nevertheless, there are features of disgust and its more complex derivatives (e.g., shame) which suggest that disgust may have a role to play in eating disorders.Seventy-four patients with a DSM-IV diagnosis of anorexia nervosa,
Troop, N A, Murphy, F, Bramon, E, Treasure, J L   +3 more
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Disgust and disgust sensitivity in spider phobia:

Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 2002
Peter J de Jong, Madelon Peters, Inge Vanderhallen   +2 more
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