High place phenomenon: prevalence and clinical correlates in two German samples

Abstract Background: The high place phenomenon, that is, a sudden urge to jump when in a high place, is an experience known to many people, that has rarely been studied. The present study aimed to assess the prevalence of the high place phenomenon in a non-clinical and a clinical German sample. Furthermore, clinical correlates of the experience were assessed. Methods: The study sample comprised 276 participants (67% female; Mage=32.08, SDage=10.73) who took part in an online assessment and 94 patients (73.4% female; Mage=49.26, SDage=13.32) suffering from clinically relevant fear of flying. Participants filled out questionnaires on experiences with the high place phenomenon, depression, anxiety, suicide ideation and anxiety sensitivity.Results: The high place phenomenon was known to nearly 60% of the online sample and to 45% of the patient sample. Suicide ideation as well as anxiety sensitivity were positively associated with experiences with the high place phenomenon in the online sample. Depression, anxiety and suicide ideation were unrelated to experiences with the phenomenon in the patient sample. Conclusion: The high place phenomenon is commonly reported by (lifetime/current) suicide ideators. However, it is also a common experience in individuals who have never suffered from suicide ideation. It is therefore cautioned not to interpret such experiences as an expression of a hidden death wish.

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High Place Phenomenon: Prevalence and clinical correlates in two German samples

10.21203/rs.3.rs-44752/v2 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Tobias Teismann ◽

Julia Brailovskaia ◽

Svenja Schaumburg ◽

André Wannemüller

Keyword(s):

Anxiety Sensitivity ◽

Suicide Ideation ◽

Online Assessment ◽

Fear Of Flying ◽

German Sample ◽

Clinical Correlates ◽

Patient Sample ◽

Common Experience ◽

Death Wish ◽

High Place

Abstract Background: The high place phenomenon, that is, a sudden urge to jump when in a high place, is an experience known to many people, that has rarely been studied. The present study aimed to assess the prevalence of the high place phenomenon in a non-clinical and a clinical German sample. Furthermore, clinical correlates of the experience were assessed. Methods: The study sample comprised 276 participants (67% female; Mage=32.08, SDage=10.73) who took part in an online assessment and 94 patients (73.4% female; Mage=49.26, SDage=13.32) suffering from clinically relevant fear of flying. Participants filled out questionnaires on experiences with the high place phenomenon, depression, anxiety, suicide ideation and anxiety sensitivity.Results: The high place phenomenon was known to nearly 60% of the online sample and to 45% of the patient sample. Suicide ideation as well as anxiety sensitivity were positively associated with experiences with the high place phenomenon in the online sample. Depression, anxiety and suicide ideation were unrelated to experiences with the phenomenon in the patient sample. Conclusion: The high place phenomenon is commonly reported by (lifetime/current) suicide ideators. However, it is also a common experience in individuals who have never suffered from suicide ideation. It is therefore cautioned not to interpret such experiences as an expression of a hidden death wish.

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High Place Phenomenon: Prevalence and Clinical Correlates in Two German Samples

10.21203/rs.3.rs-44752/v1 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Tobias Teismann ◽

Julia Brailovskaia ◽

Svenja Schaumburg ◽

André Wannemüller

Keyword(s):

Anxiety Sensitivity ◽

Suicide Ideation ◽

Online Assessment ◽

Fear Of Flying ◽

German Sample ◽

Clinical Correlates ◽

Patient Sample ◽

Common Experience ◽

Death Wish ◽

High Place

Abstract Background: The high place phenomenon, that is, a sudden urge to jump when in a high place, is an experience known to many people, that has rarely been studied. The present study aimed to assess the prevalence of the high place phenomenon in a non-clinical and a clinical German sample. Furthermore, clinical correlates of the experience were assessed. Methods: The study sample comprised 276 participants (67% female; Mage=32.08, SDage=10.73) who took part in an online assessment and 94 patients (73.4% female; Mage=49.26, SDage=13.32) suffering from clinically relevant fear of flying. Participants filled out questionnaires on experiences with the high place phenomenon, depression, anxiety, suicide ideation and anxiety sensitivity.Results: The high place phenomenon was known to nearly 60% of the online sample and to 45% of the patient sample. Suicide ideation as well as anxiety sensitivity were positively associated with experiences with the high place phenomenon in the online sample. Depression, anxiety and suicide ideation were unrelated to experiences with the phenomenon in the patient sample. Conclusion: The high place phenomenon is commonly reported by (lifetime/current) suicide ideators. However, it is also a common experience in individuals who have never suffered from suicide ideation. It is therefore cautioned not to interpret such experiences as an expression of a hidden death wish.

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Potential Predictors of Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy for Fear of Flying: Anxiety Sensitivity, Self-efficacy and the Therapeutic Alliance

Cognitive Therapy and Research ◽

10.1007/s10608-021-10269-7 ◽

2022 ◽

Author(s):

Katharina Meyerbröker ◽

Nexhmedin Morina ◽

Gerard A. Kerkhof ◽

Paul M. G. Emmelkamp

Keyword(s):

Virtual Reality ◽

Therapeutic Alliance ◽

Anxiety Sensitivity ◽

Self Efficacy ◽

Exposure Therapy ◽

Fear Of Flying ◽

Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy ◽

Virtual Reality Exposure

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The relationship between agoraphobia symptoms and panic disorder in a non-clinical sample of adolescents

Psychological Medicine ◽

10.1017/s0033291702006955 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 33 (4) ◽

pp. 733-738 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

C. HAYWARD ◽

J. D. KILLEN ◽

C. B. TAYLOR

Keyword(s):

Anxiety Disorder ◽

Panic Disorder ◽

Anxiety Sensitivity ◽

Separation Anxiety ◽

Clinical Sample ◽

Negative Affectivity ◽

Separation Anxiety Disorder ◽

Panic Attacks ◽

Clinical Samples ◽

Clinical Correlates

Background. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the clinical correlates of agoraphobic fear and avoidance and panic disorder in a non-clinical sample of adolescents.Method. In a sample of 2365 high school students, combined data from a questionnaire and a structured clinical interview were used to classify subjects with agoraphobic fear and avoidance. Panic symptoms, major depression, childhood separation anxiety disorder, anxiety sensitivity and negative affectivity were also assessed.Results. Fifteen subjects met study criteria for agoraphobic fear and avoidance in the past year. Only three (20%) of those with agoraphobia symptoms reported histories of panic attacks and there was no overlap between those with agoraphobic fear and avoidance and the 12 subjects who met DSM-III-R criteria for panic disorder. However, subjects with agoraphobia symptoms and those with panic disorder reported similar levels of anxiety sensitivity and negative affectivity. Childhood separation anxiety disorder was more common among those with agoraphobic fear and avoidance compared to those without.Conclusion. Agoraphobic avoidance is rare in non-clinical samples of adolescents and usually not associated with panic attacks. However, adolescents with agoraphobia symptoms and those with panic disorder have similar clinical correlates consistent with a panic/agoraphobia spectrum model.

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Examining the ethnoracial invariance of a bifactor model of anxiety sensitivity and the incremental validity of the physical domain-specific factor in a primary-care patient sample.

Psychological Assessment ◽

10.1037/pas0000431 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 29 (10) ◽

pp. 1290-1295 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Thomas A. Fergus ◽

Lance P. Kelley ◽

Jackson O. Griggs

Keyword(s):

Primary Care ◽

Anxiety Sensitivity ◽

Primary Care Patient ◽

Care Patient ◽

Bifactor Model ◽

Incremental Validity ◽

Specific Factor ◽

Physical Domain ◽

Patient Sample ◽

Domain Specific

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Sharing Dreams: Sex and other Sociodemographic Variables

Perceptual and Motor Skills ◽

10.2466/pms.109.1.235-238 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 109 (1) ◽

pp. 235-238 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Michael Schredl

Keyword(s):

Social Class ◽

Sociodemographic Variables ◽

German Sample ◽

Common Experience ◽

Dream Sharing

Dream sharing is a common experience for most people. Factors which might be related to dream sharing in a representative German sample were investigated in the present study. As expected, the frequency of positively toned and neutral dreams and the frequency of negatively toned dreams were related to dream sharing. In addition, an effect of sex was found: women shared their dreams more often than men. Dream sharing differing by social class and education might point to class-specific attitudes toward dreams which have not yet been studied in detail.

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Suicidality after traumatic brain injury: demographic, injury and clinical correlates

Psychological Medicine ◽

10.1017/s0033291702005561 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 32 (4) ◽

pp. 687-697 ◽

Cited By ~ 94

Author(s):

GRAHAME SIMPSON ◽

ROBYN TATE

Keyword(s):

Risk Factors ◽

Traumatic Brain Injury ◽

Brain Injury ◽

Suicidal Ideation ◽

Suicide Ideation ◽

Suicide Attempts ◽

Post Injury ◽

Psychiatric Disturbance ◽

Clinical Correlates ◽

High Level

Background. In spite of the high frequency of emotional distress after traumatic brain injury (TBI), few investigations have examined the extreme of such distress, namely, suicidality, and no large scale surveys have been conducted. The current study examined both the prevalence and demographic, injury, and clinical correlates of hopelessness, suicidal ideation and suicide attempts after TBI.Methods. Out-patients (N = 172) with TBI were screened for suicidal ideation and hopelessness using the Beck Scale for Suicide Ideation and the Beck Hopelessness Scale. Data were also collected on demographic, injury, pre-morbid and post-injury psychosocial variables and included known risk factors for suicide.Results. A substantial proportion of participants had clinically significant levels of hopelessness (35%) and suicide ideation (23%), and 18% had made a suicide attempt post-injury. There was a high degree of co-morbidity between suicide attempts and emotional/psychiatric disturbance. Results from regression analyses indicated that a high level of hopelessness was the most significant association of suicide ideation and a high level of suicide ideation, along with occurrence of post-injury emotional/psychiatric disturbance, were the most significant associations of post-injury suicide attempts. Neither injury severity nor the presence of pre-morbid suicide risk factors contributed to elevated levels of suicidality post-injury.Conclusions. Suicidality is a common psychological reaction to TBI among out-patient populations. Management should involve careful history taking of previous post-injury suicidal behaviour, assessment of post-injury adjustment to TBI with particular focus on the degree of emotional/psychiatric disturbance, and close monitoring of those individuals with high levels of hopelessness and suicide ideation.

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Cognitive vulnerability in fear of flying: the role of anxiety sensitivity

Depression and Anxiety ◽

10.1002/da.20359 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 25 (9) ◽

pp. 768-773 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

Anouk Vanden Bogaerde ◽

Rudi De Raedt

Keyword(s):

Anxiety Sensitivity ◽

Cognitive Vulnerability ◽

Fear Of Flying

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Ide Bunuh Diri pada Remaja; Faktor-Faktor yang Mempengaruhi

TAZKIYA JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY ◽

10.15408/tazkiya.v7i1.13359 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 23-31

Author(s):

Amalia Putri Suherman ◽

Sitti Evangeline Imelda Suaidy

Keyword(s):

Factor Analysis ◽

Confirmatory Factor Analysis ◽

Suicide Ideation ◽

Hypothesis Test ◽

Early Adulthood ◽

Public Health Issue ◽

Probability Sampling ◽

Confirmatory Factor ◽

And Gender ◽

Death Wish

AbstractSuicide among adolescent and early adulthood is an important public health issue. Among any cases of suicide attempt, suicide ideation is one of the strongest predictors that involved a death wish to think in detail about plans to commit suicide. This study was conducted to determine whether the psychological factors were influence on suicidal ideation among adolescents. In this study, loneliness, learning obstacle, activity other than learning, and gender has been seen as a factor that that will influence suicide ideation in adolescents. Subjects in this study were 259 students, taken with probability sampling techniques. CFA (Confirmatory Factor Analysis) was used to test the validity of Instrument and Multiple Regresion was used to test the hypotheses of the study. The result show that there is influence between loneliness, learning obstacle, activity other than learning, and gender on the suicide ideation in adolescent. Minor hypothesis test results show that bullying and loneliness had a significant effect on suicide ideation. AbstrakDiantara banyak kasus percobaan bunuh diri, ide bunuh diri merupakan salah satu prediktor yang paling kuat yang melibatkan keinginan untuk mati sampai berpikir secara rinci tentang rencana untuk melakukan bunuh diri. Penelitian ini dilakukan untuk mengetahui faktor psikologis apakah yang memberikan pengaruh pada ide bunuh diri dikalangan remaja. Pada penelitian ini kesepian, perundungan di sekolah, hambatan belajar, kegiatan selain belajar, dan jenis kelamin dipilih sebagai faktor yang akan dilihat pengaruhnya terhadap ide bunuh diri pada remaja. Subyek pada penelitian ini berjumlah 259 mahasiswa, diambil dengan teknik probability sampling. CFA (Confirmatory Factor Analysis) digunakan untuk menguji validitas alat ukur dan Multiple Regresion Analysis digunakan untuk menguji hipotesis penelitian. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa terdapat pengaruh antara kesepian, perundungan di sekolah, hambatan belajar, kegiatan selain belajar, dan jenis kelamin terhadap ide bunuh diri remaja. Hasil uji hipotesis minor menunjukkan bahwa bullying dan lonelinesss memiliki pengaruh yang signifikan terhadap ide bunuh diri.

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