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Blood/injury fear, fainting and avoidance of medically-related situations: A family correspondence study

Kleinknecht, Ronald A., Lenz, Joseph·1989·Behaviour Research and Therapy
DOI 10.1016/0005-7967(89)90088-0
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The relationship of mutilation fear and fainting was examined in 204 students, (103 fainters and 101 non-fainters) by administering a series of questionnaires and a structured interview concerning the history, effects and circumstances of their fear and fainting. Two hundred and sixty of their parents completed the same scales along with a self-report version of the structured interview. Subjects were classified according to their fainting status and level of fear based on Mutilation Questionnaire scores, as phobic, fearful, and non-fearful fainters, and fearful non-fainters. Phobic and fearful fainters avoided significantly more medical and related situations due to their fear and fainting than fearful non-fainters and non-fearful fainters. Medical avoidance was best predicted by a linear combination of subjects' estimated probability of future fainting and number of past faint episodes. More females reported fainting and females reported greater fear, but they did not differ from males in fear-motivated avoidance of medical situations. A significant parent-child correspondence was found for fainting, but not for fear nor for avoidances. Implications of these findings for fear and fainting acquisition and its relation to avoidance were discussed.

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Authors
Kleinknecht, R. A., & Lenz, J.
Affiliations
Western Washington University (US)
Corresponding author
Kleinknecht, Ronald A.
Venue
Behaviour Research and Therapy
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
1989
Volume
27
Issue
5
Pages
537-547
ISSN
0005-7967 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/0005-7967(89)90088-0
OpenAlex
W1967909609
Cited by
120
References
30
Citations by year
2025: 4 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 6 · 2013: 6 · 2012: 6
FWCI
5.33
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations
  • Behaviour Research and Therapy (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Cardiovascular Syncope and Autonomic Disorders
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
Keywords
syncope, fear acquisition, students
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adult, Arousal, Blood, Fear, Female, Humans, Male, Parent-Child Relations, Personality Tests, Phobic Disorders, Referral and Consultation, Syncope, Wounds and Injuries

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