The threat sensitivity scale: A brief self-report measure of dispositional sensitivity toward perceiving threats to physical harm.
Sci Rep
; 14(1): 11304, 2024 05 17.
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ABSTRACT
The possibility of experiencing physical harm caused by an object, animal, or person is an omnipresent risk in almost any situation. People show variability in their in the propensity to perceive the possibility of harm from any ostensibly innocuous object or situation-a so-called threat bias. Despite the important psychological and societal consequences resulting from individual differences in physical threat bias, there does not currently exist an easily administered means to capture this disposition. We therefore endeavored to create a brief reliable self-report index of threat sensitivity for use by the many fields interested in the role of threat processing. We present here a physical threat sensitivity scale (TSS) that captures the dispositional tendency to perceive the possibility of physical harm in ostensibly innocuous situations or objects. We detail the development and validation of the TSS as a reliable index of individual threat bias (Studies 1a and 1b) and provide strong convergent evidence of the relationship between TS and both relevant individual differences (Study 2) and behavioral and perceptual indicates of threat bias (Study 3 and Study 4).
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Autoinforme
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Adolescent
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Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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En
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Sci Rep
Año:
2024
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Article
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Estados Unidos