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Type: Journal article
Title: Manipulating perceptions of spider characteristics and predicted spider fear: Evidence for the cognitive vulnerability model of the etiology of fear
Author: Armfield, J.
Citation: Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 2007; 21(5):691-703
Publisher: Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd
Issue Date: 2007
ISSN: 0887-6185
1873-7897
Organisation: Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health
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Jason M. Armfield
Abstract: The present study reports on an attempt to experimentally manipulate perceptions of uncontrollability, unpredictability and dangerousness related to an imaginal encounter with a spider in order to determine whether there is an effect on self-rated predicted spider fear. Experimental manipulations involved differing information in relation to both the spider and the imaginal task. The control, predictability and dangerousness manipulations all had significant main effects on task-related spider fear (TRSF). Measures of the perception of the spiders as uncontrollable, unpredictable and dangerous were also significantly associated with TRSF and accounted for 42% of the variance in predicted fear beyond that accounted for by the experimental manipulations. Results are discussed in terms of their implications for better understanding the etiology and maintenance of fear. The overall findings are consistent with the cognitive vulnerability model, with cognitive perceptions of an object or situation seen as causal determinants of the fear associated with the stimulus.
Keywords: Fear
Cognitive vulnerability
Control
Predictability
Danger
Spider phobia
Description: Copyright © 2006 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved.
DOI: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2006.10.005
Description (link): http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/801/description#description
Published version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2006.10.005
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