Is disgust proneness associated with anxiety and related disorders? A qualitative review and meta-analysis of group comparison and correlational studies

BO Olatunji, T Armstrong… - … on Psychological Science, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Research suggests that disgust may be linked to the etiology of some anxiety-related
disorders. The present investigation reviews this literature and employs separate meta …

OCD: obsessive–compulsive… disgust? The role of disgust in obsessive–compulsive disorder

T Bhikram, E Abi-Jaoude, P Sandor - Journal of Psychiatry and …, 2017 - jpn.ca
Recent research has identified the important role of disgust in the symptomatology of
obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD). Exaggerated and inappropriate disgust reactions …

Intolerance of uncertainty and obsessive-compulsive disorder dimensions

CM Pinciotti, BC Riemann, JS Abramowitz - Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 2021 - Elsevier
Intolerance of uncertainty (IU), which can include prospective (ie, desire for predictability)
and inhibitory (ie, uncertainty paralysis) IU, is widely understood to be a central underlying …

Changing disgust through imagery rescripting and cognitive reappraisal in contamination-based obsessive-compulsive disorder

J Fink, E Pflugradt, C Stierle, C Exner - Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 2018 - Elsevier
Contamination-related obsessive-compulsive disorder (C-OCD) is characterized by strongly
experienced disgust and fear, in response to potentially contaminating stimuli. Both …

Disgust-induced avoidant processing of autobiographical memories as a transdiagnostic mechanism in the persistence of psychopathology

P von Spreckelsen, PJ de Jong - Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 2023 - Guilford Press
We present a model of disgust-induced avoidant processing of autobiographical memories
contributing to the persistence of psychopathology. Following the model, autobiographical …

Anxiety sensitivity and obsessive-compulsive symptom dimensions: Further evidence of specific relationships in a clinical sample

A Poli, G Melli, M Ghisi, G Bottesi, C Sica - Personality and individual …, 2017 - Elsevier
The relationship between anxiety sensitivity (AS) and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
has been widely recognized. The specific relationships between AS dimensions and OCD …

Escitalopram and lorazepam differentially affect nesting and open field behaviour in deer mice exposed to an anxiogenic environment

DW Wolmarans, M Prinsloo, S Seedat, DJ Stein… - Neuroscience …, 2022 - Elsevier
Large nest building behaviour (LNB), as expressed by a subpopulation of laboratory housed
deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus bairdii), is persistent and repetitive. However, the …

Disgust propensity and sensitivity in childhood anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder: Two constructs differentially related to obsessional content

C Georgiadis, M Schreck, M Gervasio, J Kemp… - Journal of Anxiety …, 2020 - Elsevier
The role of disgust in anxiety and related disorders has been extensively studied in adults,
however its role in childhood psychopathology is in need of further investigation. The adult …

Is heightened disgust propensity truly a risk factor for contamination-related obsessive-compulsive disorder?

G Melli, A Poli, C Chiorri, BO Olatunji - Behavior Therapy, 2019 - Elsevier
Disgust propensity (DP) has been conceptualized as a stable personality trait that confers
risk for contamination-related OCD (C-OCD). However, the extent to which DP leads to the …

Individual differences in avoiding feelings of disgust: Development and construct validity of the disgust avoidance questionnaire

P von Spreckelsen, NC Jonker, J Vugteveen, I Wessel… - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
We developed and examined the construct validity of the Disgust Avoidance Questionnaire
(DAQ) as a measure of people's inclination to prevent experiencing disgust (disgust …