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      Mental contamination, disgust, and other negative emotions among survivors of sexual trauma: Results from a daily monitoring study.

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          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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          Journal
          J Anxiety Disord
          Journal of anxiety disorders
          Elsevier BV
          1873-7897
          0887-6185
          Dec 2021
          : 84
          Affiliations
          [1 ] Brown University, Warren Alpert Medical School, USA. Electronic address: charles_brake@brown.edu.
          [2 ] University of Kentucky, Department of Psychology, USA.
          Article
          NIHMS1745842 S0887-6185(21)00124-9
          10.1016/j.janxdis.2021.102477
          8599658
          34627103
          027b3a50-9eb6-4b4c-9a63-cec433228a3b
          History

          Disgust,Ecological assessment,Mental contamination,Negative emotion,Sexual trauma

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