Disgust mediates the relation between attentional shifting and contamination aversion

Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry
T G Adams, J M Lohr

Abstract

Aversion of contaminants is important for several psychiatric disorders, particularly contamination-based obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Recent theoretical models have proposed that the ability to control one's attention, especially when processing affectively laden information, is important in the etiology of pathological anxiety. The present study tested the relations between attentional control, affective arousal, and behavioral approach toward contaminants (contamination aversion). Thirty-three non-selected (undergraduate university students) participants completed a measure of trait attentional control and three behavioral approach tasks, which measured emotional reactivity and approach toward contaminants. Preliminary analyses showed that poorer attentional control and greater affective arousal predicted less behavioral approach toward contaminants. Modeling of direct and indirect relations showed that poor attentional shifting ability and greater subjective disgust were related to less behavioral approach. Moreover, disgust fully mediated the relation between attentional shifting and behavioral approach. The present study used a convenience sample, which is not representative of the general population or individual...Continue Reading

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