ArticleJournal of anxiety disorders2021
Mental contamination, disgust, and other negative emotions among survivors of sexual trauma: Results from a daily monitoring study.
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- Disgust and Other Negative Emotions in the Relationship between Mental Contamination and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Systematic Review.Actas espanolas de psiquiatria · 2025Pooled it
- "It Doesn't Matter Where OCD Comes From," or Does It?Current psychiatry reports · 2026Review
- Targets of Trauma-Related Disgust and Emotion Regulation Difficulties as Predictors of PTSD Symptoms and Mental Contamination Following Sexual Violence.Violence against women · 2026Article
- Main and Interactive Effects of Self-Disgust and Affect Intensity in Predicting the Severity of Mental Contamination, Contact Contamination, and PTSD Symptoms.European journal of trauma & dissociation = Revue europeenne du trauma et de la dissociation · 2026Article
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- "I Felt Dirty in a Way a Shower Wouldn't Fix": A Qualitative Examination of Sexual Trauma-Related Mental Contamination.Journal of interpersonal violence · 2025Article
- Trauma reminders and disgust: The roles of posttraumatic stress disorder symptom severity, trauma type, and reminder type.Journal of traumatic stress · 2024Article
- Main and Interactive Effects of Negative Posttraumatic Cognitions and Disgust Sensitivity in Predicting Daily Experiences of Sexual Trauma-Related Mental Contamination.Traumatology · 2024Article
- Higher Sexual Avoidance, not Higher Pathogen Disgust, Is Associated with Lower Arousal in Women with a History of Unwanted Sex.Evolutionary psychological science · 2024Article
- Disgust as a primary emotional system and its clinical relevance.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Randomized trial on the effects of an EMDR intervention on traumatic and obsessive symptoms during the COVID-19 quarantine: a psychometric study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Fear of sin and fear of God: Scrupulosity predicts women's daily experiences of mental contamination following sexual trauma.Journal of traumatic stress · 2023Article
- Trauma-Related Shame and Guilt as Prospective Predictors of Daily Mental Contamination and PTSD Symptoms in Survivors of Sexual Trauma.Journal of interpersonal violence · 2023Article
- Daily Associations Between Trauma-Related Mental Contamination and Use of Specific Coping Strategies: Results of a Daily Monitoring Study.Journal of interpersonal violence · 2023Article
- Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms and Daily Experiences of Posttraumatic Stress and Mental Contamination Following Sexual Trauma.Journal of obsessive-compulsive and related disorders · 2023Article
- Mental contamination, PTSD symptoms, and coping following sexual trauma: Results from a daily monitoring study.Journal of anxiety disorders · 2022Article
- Examining sexual functioning and disgust in virtual reality: Low sexual interest/arousal and sexual pain moderate disgust toward sexual stimuli.International journal of clinical and health psychology : IJCHPArticle
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Abstract
Mental contamination (MC)-feelings of dirtiness triggered by internal sources-is a potentially important yet understudied factor for survivors of sexual trauma. MC has been linked to disgust and other negative emotions (e.g., shame, guilt) cross-sectionally and in lab-based paradigms but not yet examined in ecological contexts. Additionally, links between MC and distinct negative emotions have not been studied systematically. The present study thus modeled relationships between MC and specific emotions both across and within days over a daily monitoring period. Forty-one females with sexual trauma history and associated MC completed twice-daily assessments of MC and seven emotions (disgust, shame, guilt, anger, hopelessness, sadness, anxiety) over 2 weeks via a smartphone app. Baseline MC and average daily MC were largely associated with higher daily averages of negative emotions. Concurrently, within-person changes in MC and negative emotions were also positively linked. Unexpectedly, intraindividual changes in MC were largely not associated with later negative emotions, whereas several emotions were negatively associated with later MC. Notably, MC among screened sexual trauma survivors was much more prevalent compared to prior research. Clinical relevance and future recommendations for ecological research in trauma-related mental contamination are discussed.
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