Emotional predictors of bowel screening: the avoidance-promoting role of fear, embarrassment, and disgust

BMC Cancer

Table 4 Spearman’s rho correlations between emotion measures and bowel screening behaviours

Measure	Decision to delay seeking medical help	Ever provided a faecal sample	Invasive bowel screening test in last 5 years
EBBS subscales:
Faecal disgust	0.31**	−0.13^*	−0.12*
Insertion disgust	0.28**	−0.18**	−0.24**
Fear of outcome	0.31**	− 0.09	− 0.13^*
Embarrassment	0.32**	− 0.04	− 0.16**
DS-R subscales:
Core	0.07	− 0.02	− 0.05
Animal-reminder	0.08	−0.11⁺	− 0.07
Contamination	0.09	−0.03	0.02
DPSS-R subscales:
Propensity	0.10⁺	0.06	−0.07
Sensitivity	0.14*	−0.02	−0.07
DES subscales:
Fear	0.15*	0.00	0.04
Disgust	0.14*	−0.16*	−0.04
Shame	0.19**	−0.05	−0.04

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