Blood-injection-injury phobia and dog phobia in youth: psychological characteristics and associated features in a clinical sample

Oar, Ella L.; Farrell, Lara J.; Waters, Allison M.; Ollendick, Thomas H.

doi:10.1016/j.beth.2016.01.004

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Blood-injection-injury phobia and dog phobia in youth: psychological characteristics and associated features in a clinical sample

Oar, Ella L., Farrell, Lara J., Waters, Allison M., Ollendick, Thomas H.·2016·Behavior Therapy

DOI 10.1016/j.beth.2016.01.004

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Blood-Injection-Injury (BII) phobia is a particularly debilitating condition that has been largely ignored in the child literature. The present study examined the clinical phenomenology of BII phobia in 27 youths, relative to 25 youths with dog phobia-one of the most common and well-studied phobia subtypes in youth. Children were compared on measures of phobia severity, functional impairment, comorbidity, threat appraisals (danger expectancies and coping), focus of fear, and physiological responding, as well as vulnerability factors including disgust sensitivity and family history. Children and adolescents with BII phobia had greater diagnostic severity. In addition, they were more likely to have a comorbid diagnosis of a physical health condition, to report more exaggerated danger expectancies, and to report fears that focused more on physical symptoms (e.g., faintness and nausea) in comparison to youth with dog phobia. The present study advances knowledge relating to this poorly understood condition in youth.

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Authors: Oar, E. L., Farrell, L. J., Waters, A. M., & Ollendick, T. H.
Affiliations: Griffith University (AU)
Virginia Tech (US)
Corresponding author: Oar, Ella L.
ORCID: Oar, Ella L.
Farrell, Lara J.
Waters, Allison M.
Ollendick, Thomas H.
Venue: Behavior Therapy
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 2016-05
Volume: 47
Issue: 3
Pages: 312-324
ISSN: 0005-7894 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1016/j.beth.2016.01.004
OpenAlex: W2287720969
Cited by: 18
References: 47
Citations by year: 2026: 1 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 1
FWCI: 3.79
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations: Behavior Therapy (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Griffith Research Online (submittedVersion)
Funders: Griffith University
Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative
Topics: Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
Keywords: blood-injection-injury phobia, dog phobia, youth, children and adolescents, functional disability, comorbidities, coping, threat appraisal, disgust sensitivity, family history (medicine)
MeSH terms: Adaptation, Psychological, Adolescent, Animals, Blood, Child, Dogs, Emotions, Fear, Female, Humans, Injections, Male, Phobic Disorders, Risk Factors, Wounds and Injuries, Comorbidity

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