Scared and surrounded by clutter: the influence of emotional reactivity
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Background Home visits can improve treatment outcomes for hoarding disorder, but factors influencing the success of home visits remain unknown. As home visits expose individuals to clutter and fear, the present study examined the effect that fear and emotional reactivity have on the relationship between clutter and discarding behaviour. Methods Participants with at least subclinical discarding problems (n = 143) were asked to save or discard personal possessions of varying value following an emotional induction that took place in either a tidy or cluttered context. Participants also completed questionnaires assessing hoarding severity, emotional state, and emotional reactivity, as defined by one's sensitivity, persistence, and intensity of reactions to emotional stimuli. Results As expected, participants discarded more items in the presence of clutter and when feeling fearful. However, emotional reactivity moderated the relations between environmental context, acute emotional state, and discarding. Low sensitivity, low persistence, and high emotional intensity negatively influenced discarding in the cluttered context. When feeling fearful, low dispositional emotional intensity negatively influenced discarding in the tidy context. Limitations Individuals in the tidy environment reported higher levels of fear and anxiety than individuals in the cluttered environment after the fear induction. These differences could have contributed to the difference noted between the two contex…
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Growing evidence suggests that individuals with hoarding disorder experience negative emotions intensely and have difficulty tolerating these emotions.
“Growing evidence suggest that individuals with HD experience negative emotions intensely and have difficulty tolerating these emotions (Crone and Norberg, 2018;Grisham et al., 2018;Norberg et al., 2020;Shaw et al., 2015;Timpano et al., 2014).”
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- Authors
- Crone, C., & Norberg, M. M.
- Affiliations
- Macquarie University (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Norberg, Melissa M.
- Venue
- Journal of Affective Disorders
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2018-08
- Volume
- 235
- Pages
- 285-292
- ISSN
- 0165-0327 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2798035560
- Cited by
- 20
- References
- 20
- Citations by year
- 2025: 3 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 5
- FWCI
- 3.52
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Affective Disorders (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Keywords
- hoarding disorder, clutter, emotional reactivity, fear, emotional intensity, emotional sensitivity, emotional persistence, emotion induction, home visits, therapeutic environment
- MeSH terms
- Hoarding Disorder, Adult, Anxiety, Emotions, Environment, Fear, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Neuropsychological Tests, Psychiatric Status Rating Scales, Surveys and Questionnaires, Young Adult, Self Report
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