Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden.
Environ Toxicol Pharmacol. 2005 May;19(3):659-64. doi: 10.1016/j.etap.2004.12.033.
The study examined the impact of trait anxiety and social conformity on ratings and test performance during controlled solvent challenge. Healthy women (n=20) and men (n=18) were exposed to increasing levels of toluene and n-butyl acetate in a challenge chamber, during which they repeatedly rated smell intensity and annoyance, and completed neurobehavioral tests. Trait anxiety was measured by the Psychasthenia scale of the Karolinska Scales of Personality (KSP), and social conformity by the KSP Social Desirability scale. Among women, high Psychasthenia was related to higher increase in ratings of mucous membrane irritation, fatigue, and annoyance from other aspects of the environment than smell during challenges, and was related to a higher increase in reaction time variability. Among men, Psychasthenia was unrelated to annoyance ratings, and was inversely related to the increase in smell intensity ratings. Social desirability was unrelated to any rating or performance dimension for either gender.
这项研究考察了特质焦虑和社会从众性对受控溶剂挑战期间评分和测试表现的影响。在挑战室内，健康的女性（n=20）和男性（n=18）被暴露于越来越高浓度的甲苯和正丁酯中，在此期间，他们反复对气味强度和刺鼻性进行评分，并完成神经行为测试。特质焦虑通过卡罗林斯卡人格量表（KSP）的精神衰弱量表来测量，社会从众性通过 KSP 社会期望量表来测量。在女性中，高精神衰弱与在挑战过程中，除了气味之外，对粘膜刺激、疲劳和来自环境其他方面的烦恼的评分增加更高有关，并且与反应时变异性的增加更高有关。在男性中，精神衰弱与烦恼评分无关，与气味强度评分的增加呈反比关系。社会期望性与任何性别任何评分或表现维度均无关。
