For Cameron, the phobia was related to a lack of control and an anxious mind that spooled out dire scenarios, like engine failure.
"Our data points come from search data and merely represent what people are searching for, not necessarily the phobia they may have (if any)," Bay told Live Science.
According to a 2017 study on the topic by Phd candidate Maeve O'Connell and others at University College Cork's Irish Centre for Fetal and Neonatal Translational Research, the phobia is most common in women who have been pregnant before referred to as "secondary" tokophobia for whom it can be spurred by a previous C-section or traumatic birth experience.
To date, anxiety questionnaires exclusively assessing a specific diagnosis are prevalent in German-speaking countries, for example, screenings for social anxiety like the Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory for Children (SPAIK; [ 6]) or specific phobias like the Phobia Questionnaire for Children and Adolescents (PHOKI; [ 7]).
Right now I'm doing exposure therapy for the vomit phobia, too.
It seems clear that, but for the "tax phobia" of Congress and the Administration, the amount owed for non-compliance with the mandate would have been called a tax.
The proportion of participants who no longer met criteria for the social phobia diagnosis at post-test in the two conditions was examined using χ2 tests of independence.
Participants completed a second SBSA on average 9.68 days (SD = 4.35) later at Time 2. For the social phobia sample, after participants provided informed consent, they completed the SBSA, SPS, and the DASS as part of a set of baseline measures before being entered into an experimental protocol.
The medical term for this phobia is mysophobia.
The other names for this phobia are Ergasiophobia, or 'work aversion'.
