The role of fear, disgust, and relevant experience in the assessment of stimuli associated with blood-injury-injection phobia
Individuals with high levels of blood-injection-injury (BII) fears are more likely to avoid health screenings, vaccination, and even minor medical interventions. This could result in more serious health issues, lower quality of life, and even shorter life expectancy. However, still little is known a...
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| author | Botond László Kiss Béla Birkás Léna Zilahi Andras N. Zsido |
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| description | Individuals with high levels of blood-injection-injury (BII) fears are more likely to avoid health screenings, vaccination, and even minor medical interventions. This could result in more serious health issues, lower quality of life, and even shorter life expectancy. However, still little is known about how various emotions (i.e., fear and disgust) affect subjective evaluation on phobia-related stimuli, and what are the potential risk and protective factors that may change the perception of such stimuli throughout these emotions. We investigated the role of fear of medical interventions and the degree of disgust sensitivity in the evaluation of BII phobia-related content and whether previous relevant experience and age may provide protection against the development of a phobia. We collected online survey data from multiple university sources. Participants (N = 228) completed measures of medical fear, disgust sensitivity, prior relevant experience and medical knowledge. Participants were also asked to rate images related to medical settings on dimensions of valence, arousal, disgust, and threat. Our results suggest that high disgust sensitivity and fear of medical interventions may be a risk factor for avoiding medical settings. However, previous relevant medical experience may function as protective factor. The pandemic of recent years underscored the importance of medical intervention and screening tests. These results have implications for professionals helping (e.g., as counselors) people with BII phobia, and physicians and nurses in informing and treating patients. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-335b312719b0431ba6b4afd18f8f3e2e2023-01-05T08:37:07ZengElsevierHeliyon2405-84402022-12-01812e11839The role of fear, disgust, and relevant experience in the assessment of stimuli associated with blood-injury-injection phobiaBotond László Kiss0Béla Birkás1Léna Zilahi2Andras N. Zsido3Institute of Psychology, University of Pécs, HungaryDepartment of Behavioral Sciences, Medical School, University of Pécs, HungaryFaculty of Education and Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, HungaryInstitute of Psychology, University of Pécs, Hungary; Corresponding author.Individuals with high levels of blood-injection-injury (BII) fears are more likely to avoid health screenings, vaccination, and even minor medical interventions. This could result in more serious health issues, lower quality of life, and even shorter life expectancy. However, still little is known about how various emotions (i.e., fear and disgust) affect subjective evaluation on phobia-related stimuli, and what are the potential risk and protective factors that may change the perception of such stimuli throughout these emotions. We investigated the role of fear of medical interventions and the degree of disgust sensitivity in the evaluation of BII phobia-related content and whether previous relevant experience and age may provide protection against the development of a phobia. We collected online survey data from multiple university sources. Participants (N = 228) completed measures of medical fear, disgust sensitivity, prior relevant experience and medical knowledge. Participants were also asked to rate images related to medical settings on dimensions of valence, arousal, disgust, and threat. Our results suggest that high disgust sensitivity and fear of medical interventions may be a risk factor for avoiding medical settings. However, previous relevant medical experience may function as protective factor. The pandemic of recent years underscored the importance of medical intervention and screening tests. These results have implications for professionals helping (e.g., as counselors) people with BII phobia, and physicians and nurses in informing and treating patients.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844022031279Threat assessmentMedical fearDisgust sensitivityAnxietyValenceArousal |
| spellingShingle | Botond László Kiss Béla Birkás Léna Zilahi Andras N. Zsido The role of fear, disgust, and relevant experience in the assessment of stimuli associated with blood-injury-injection phobia Heliyon Threat assessment Medical fear Disgust sensitivity Anxiety Valence Arousal |
| title | The role of fear, disgust, and relevant experience in the assessment of stimuli associated with blood-injury-injection phobia |
| title_full | The role of fear, disgust, and relevant experience in the assessment of stimuli associated with blood-injury-injection phobia |
| title_fullStr | The role of fear, disgust, and relevant experience in the assessment of stimuli associated with blood-injury-injection phobia |
| title_full_unstemmed | The role of fear, disgust, and relevant experience in the assessment of stimuli associated with blood-injury-injection phobia |
| title_short | The role of fear, disgust, and relevant experience in the assessment of stimuli associated with blood-injury-injection phobia |
| title_sort | role of fear disgust and relevant experience in the assessment of stimuli associated with blood injury injection phobia |
| topic | Threat assessment Medical fear Disgust sensitivity Anxiety Valence Arousal |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844022031279 |
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