Emotional avoidance: an experimental test of individual differences and response suppression using biological challenge
Emotional avoidance: an experimental test of individual differences and response suppression using biological challenge
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DOI：
10.1016/s0005-7967(02)00020-7
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发表时间：
2003-04-01
影响因子：
4.1
通讯作者：
Spira, AP
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作者：
Feldner, MT;Zvolensky, MJ;Spira, AP
本研究探讨了焦虑相关的身体压力状态下反应抑制的情感后果。根据实验前情绪回避的差异（高与低），选择了48名非临床参与者，并吸入4次20%的二氧化碳富集空气。一半的参与者被要求抑制挑战引起的厌恶情绪状态，而另一半则被要求简单地观察他们的情绪反应。高情绪回避的参与者与低情绪回避的参与者相比，焦虑和情感困扰的程度更高，但没有生理唤醒。与观察身体感觉相比，情绪回避水平高的个体在抑制时也报告了相对于情绪回避水平低的个体更高的焦虑水平。这些研究结果进行了讨论，在身体压力的情绪回避过程的意义，更好地理解恐慌症的性质的影响。(C)2002爱思唯尔科技有限公司版权所有。
The present study examined the affective consequences of response inhibition during a state of anxiety-related physical stress. Forty-eight non-clinical participants were selected on the basis of pre-experimental differences in emotional avoidance (high versus low) and subjected to four inhalations of 20% carbon dioxide-enriched air. Half of the participants were instructed to inhibit the challenge-induced aversive emotional state, whereas the other half was instructed to simply observe their emotional response. Participants high in emotional avoidance compared to those low in emotional avoidance responded with greater levels of anxiety and affective distress but not physiological arousal. Individuals high in emotional avoidance also reported greater levels of anxiety relative to the low emotional avoidance group when suppressing compared to observing bodily sensations. These findings are discussed in terms of the significance of emotional avoidance processes during physical stress, with implications for better understanding the nature of panic disorder. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.