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Elevated disgust proneness in schizophrenia
Author(s) -
Ille Rottraut,
Schöny Michaela,
Kapfhammer HansPeter,
Schienle Anne
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/jclp.20714
Subject(s) - disgust , psychology , anger , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , anxiety , trait , clinical psychology , psychosis , trait anxiety , psychiatry , developmental psychology , computer science , programming language
Abstract Schizophrenia is a mental disorder hardly investigated with regard to habitual disgust. We compared disgust propensity, trait anger, trait anxiety and disgust sensitivity in 69 patients with schizophrenia, 68 depressive patients and 70 mentally healthy controls. Patients with schizophrenia reported more pronounced overall disgust propensity than healthy individuals. Whereas food‐related disgust was crucial for schizophrenia, depressed patients experienced elevated death‐related disgust. Females reported greater disgust proneness than males. Both patient groups showed higher trait anxiety and trait anger than controls. Depressive patients additionally reported elevated anger expression and even higher anger suppression than the schizophrenia group. We found a positive relationship between disgust proneness and disgust sensitivity in controls and patients. The importance of disorder‐specific disgust domains is discussed. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol 66:1–11, 2010.