Reactividad emocional en una fobia específicadiferencias y patrones de concordancia en el triple sistema de respuestas en función del género

  1. Matud Aznar, María Pilar 1
  2. López Curbelo, Marisela 1
  3. Avero Delgado, Pedro Benito 1
  4. Bethencourt Pérez, Juan Manuel 1
  5. Fernández-Valdés, A. 1
  1. 1 Universidad de La Laguna
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    Universidad de La Laguna

    San Cristobal de La Laguna, España

    ROR https://ror.org/01r9z8p25

    Geographic location of the organization Universidad de La Laguna
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Ansiedad y estrés

ISSN: 1134-7937

Year of publication: 2000

Volume: 6

Issue: 1

Pages: 93-104

Type: Article

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Abstract

This study deals with patterns of concordance between the different component of emotional reactivity in specific animal phobia, as a function of gender of participants (39 females and 24 males, who were phobic to cocroaches). An exposure procedure is used, in which the spatial proximity of the phobic stimulus with respect to the subject is manipulated. After a baseline and the anticipacion phase, the phobic stimuli were present, followed by a recovery phase. Subjetive, behavioral and physiological emotional responses were assessed across the different phases. Results indicated that female were not generally more reactive than males, though the former showed more reactivity than the latter in some specific behavioral and subjetive measures. In addition, there was an inverse relationship between controllable responses (subjetive and behavioral) and involuntary reponses for males, which supports the hypothesis that males intentionally inhibit emotional responses

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