Department of Psychology, Concordia University, 7141 Sherbrooke St. West, Montreal, QC, H4B 1R6, Canada.
Behav Res Ther. 2009 Dec;47(12):995-1003. doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2009.03.004. Epub 2009 Mar 24.
The fear of contamination is thought to be comprised of two separate but related fears: those pertaining to physical and mental contamination. Previous research on mental contamination involved studies in which more than one independent variable was manipulated simultaneously. In particular, an immoral act (e.g., a non-consensual kiss) had been coupled with an immoral man (e.g., the person who forces the kiss) in each manipulation. The purpose of this study was to separate manipulations of the immorality of the man from the immorality of the act. Female undergraduate students (n=148) listened to an audio recording and imagined that they were experiencing either sharing a consensual kiss with a man described as moral or immoral, or receiving a forced, non-consensual kiss from a man described as moral or immoral. Participants indicated the presence and degree of mental contamination and then completed a behavioural task for which spontaneous washing was recorded. Results indicated that a non-consensual kiss evoked greater feelings of mental contamination than a consensual kiss. In particular, participants who imagined a non-consensual kiss from a man described as either moral or immoral reported the greatest feelings of mental contamination, whereas participants who imagined a consensual kiss from a man described as moral reported the least. Results are discussed in terms of cognitive-behavioural conceptualizations of and treatments for contamination fears.
对身体和心理污染的恐惧。先前关于心理污染的研究涉及同时操纵多个自变量的研究。特别是，不道德的行为（例如，非自愿的亲吻）与不道德的人（例如，强迫亲吻的人）在每次操作中都结合在一起。本研究的目的是将人的不道德行为与行为的不道德性分开。女本科生（n=148）听了一段录音，并想象自己与被描述为道德或不道德的男人进行了自愿的亲吻，或者与被描述为道德或不道德的男人进行了强迫的、非自愿的亲吻。参与者表示存在和程度的心理污染，然后完成一个行为任务，记录自发的洗涤。结果表明，非自愿的亲吻比自愿的亲吻引起更大的心理污染感。特别是，想象来自被描述为道德或不道德的男人的非自愿亲吻的参与者报告了最大的心理污染感，而想象来自被描述为道德的男人的自愿亲吻的参与者报告了最小的心理污染感。结果根据污染恐惧的认知行为概念化和治疗进行了讨论。
