Abstract:

Objectives: While disgust directed at potential disease elicitors constitutes an adaptive mechanism for health protection, disgust directed against the own person is dysfunctional, particularly when it becomes an enduring cognitive-affective orientation toward the self. Self-disgust is associated with several mental disorders, such as depression, borderline personality disorder, eating disorders, obsessive-compulsive and related disorders, and posttraumatic stress disorder. Therefore, the assessment of this construct in the clinical context is very important. Since a Questionnaire for the Assessment of Self-Disgust (QASD) in Italian did not exist, such a scale was developed.

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