Claustrophobic fear behavior: A test of the expectancy model of fear

Component fears of claustrophobia associated with mock magnetic resonance imaging

“…Valentiner et al (1996) reported a thematically similar result; cardiac responsivity during a claustrophobia test was predicted with a measure of self-efficacy regarding the test. However, McGlynn et al (2003) and Valentiner et al (1993) failed to predict cardiac responsivity related to claustrophobia with similar predictor variables. An understanding of cardiac responsivity during claustrophobic challenge awaits research on boundary conditions.…”

“…For example, one expectancy model (Reiss & McNally, 1985) posits that fear is governed by an expectation of danger coupled with an expectation of anxiety augmented by anxiety sensitivity (see also Reiss, 1991). Questionnaires that quantify these factors could be used as predictor variables in the research preparation used here, as was done by Valentiner et al (1993) vis-à-vis a small, dark chamber.…”

Pain Anxiety in a Social Context: The Integration of Anxiety Sensitivity and Event Expectancy

“…Some interaction effects were marginal (Schoenberger et al, 1991), whereas others were significant for avoidance behavior but not for self-reported anxiety (Valentiner et al, 1993), and still others were significant in the opposite direction (i.e., higher expectancy led to less panic among high-AS participants; Harrington et al, 1996).…”

“…Previous research has simultaneously examined sensitivities and expectancies across a number of fear-related responses, including claustrophobic behavior (Valentiner, Telch, Ilai, & Hehmsoth, 1993), fear and avoidance of snakes (Schoenberger, Kirsch, & Rosengard, 1991), and panic attacks (Harrington, Schmidt, & Telch, 1996). These studies hypothesized that sensitivity and expectancy were integrated multiplicatively, positing that greater sensitivity would increase the psychological impact of event expectancy.…”

The Disgust Propensity and Sensitivity Scale–Revised: An examination of a reduced-item version

“…AS represents the fear of arousal-related sensations and has been hypothesized to be central in a number of anxiety disorders (Reiss, 1991;Taylor, 1999), including some specific phobias (e.g., Craske & Sipsas, 1992;Valentiner, Telch, Ilai, & Hehmsoth, 1993). Assuming the DP and DS scales are truly assessing unique facets of disgust per se, they should both demonstrate unique variance over a conceptually similar fear-based construct, like AS, in predicting symptoms of disgust-relevant phobias.…”