Anxiety Sensitivity and Obsessive—Compulsive Disorder

Calamari, John E.; Rector, Neil A.; Woodard, John L.; Cohen, Robyn J.; Chik, Heather M.

doi:10.1177/1073191107312611

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“…Similar results were found in a longitudinal study of adolescents (Hayward, Killen, Kraemer, & Taylor, 2000;Hayward, Killen, & Taylor, 2003;Hayward & Wilson, 2007;Schmidt, Zvolensky, & Maner, 2006). Studies also report a significant relationship between AS and other anxiety disorders, such as OCD and social phobia (Anderson & Hope, 2009;Calamari et al, 2008;Rector, Szacun-Shmizu, & Leybman, 2007). Further studies demonstrate that apart from various anxiety disorders, AS facilitates the development of other anxiety-related behaviors.…”

Section: Anxiety Sensitivity Theorysupporting

confidence: 81%

Fear and Phobia: A Critical Review and the Rational-Choice Theory of Neurosis

Rofé¹,

Rofé²

2015

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This article reviews the empirical status of theories of fear and phobia. Psychoanalysis received little support, as findings tend to refute its basic assumption that phobia results from repressed material. Although conditioning has its weaknesses, it appears to be the strongest explanation of simple phobia. Findings raise question as to whether interoceptive conditioning can account for the development of panic disorder and agoraphobia, as these disorders develop in the absence of environmental conditioning events. A significant body of research supports Clark's claim that catastrophic misinterpretation of bodily sensations are involved in both the development and treatment of panic disorder and agoraphobia. However, the causal relationship between the two remains unclear. Likewise, while biological factors certainly increase the vulnerability to developing fear and phobia, findings have not yet confirmed that these behaviors are controlled by biological mechanisms. A new theory, the Rational-Choice Theory of Neurosis (Rofé, 2010;Y. Rofé & Rofé, 2013), which preserves the psychoanalytic claim that bizarre phobias need to be explained within a theory that accounts for neuroses by one set of theoretical concepts, was used to resolve the theoretical confusion in this field.

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Section: Anxiety Sensitivity Theorysupporting

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Fear and Phobia: A Critical Review and the Rational-Choice Theory of Neurosis

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Rofé²

2015

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“…Calamari, Rector, Woodard, Cohen, and Chik (2008) found that anxiety sensitivity (AS; i.e., the fear of anxiety-related bodily sensations) contributed to models predicting OCD severity, beyond the cognitive appraisal constructs described above. The same study found that the relationship between AS and OCD symptom severity varied across symptom dimensions.…”

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Differences in obsessional beliefs and emotion appraisal in obsessive compulsive symptom presentation

Smith

Wetterneck

Hart

et al. 2012

Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders

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“…Several trait-like vulnerability factors that have been linked to both posttraumatic stress (Engelhard et al, 2010; Monson, Price, Rodriquez, Ripley, & Warner, 2004; Taylor, 2003) and OC symptoms (Calamari, Rector, Woodard, Cohen, & Chik 2008; Olatunji et al, 2007) were examined for appropriateness of inclusion as covariates to increase confidence that significant associations are due to hypothesized variables and not relevant third variables.…”

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Specificity of fear and disgust experienced during traumatic interpersonal victimization in predicting posttraumatic stress and contamination-based obsessive–compulsive symptoms

Badour

Bown

Adams

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Journal of Anxiety Disorders

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Emerging evidence has documented comorbidity between posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) among individuals with a history of traumatic events. There is growing recognition of the importance of disgust in each of these conditions independently. No study, however, has examined the potential role of disgust in these conditions following traumatic event exposure. The current study examined the unique role of peritraumatic fear, self-focused disgust, and other-focused disgust in predicting posttraumatic stress symptoms and contamination-based OC symptoms among 49 adult women (Mage = 28.37, SD = 13.86) with a history of traumatic interpersonal victimization. Results demonstrated that intensity of peritraumatic self-focused disgust was significantly related to contamination-based OC symptoms while peritraumatic fear and other-focused disgust were related to posttraumatic stress symptoms. These results highlight the need for future research aimed at elucidating the nature of the association between disgust experienced during traumatic events and subsequent psychopathology.

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Anxiety Sensitivity and Obsessive—Compulsive Disorder

Cited by 53 publications

References 49 publications

Fear and Phobia: A Critical Review and the Rational-Choice Theory of Neurosis

Fear and Phobia: A Critical Review and the Rational-Choice Theory of Neurosis

Differences in obsessional beliefs and emotion appraisal in obsessive compulsive symptom presentation

Specificity of fear and disgust experienced during traumatic interpersonal victimization in predicting posttraumatic stress and contamination-based obsessive–compulsive symptoms

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