title: Misophonia: incidence, phenomenology, and clinical correlates in an undergraduate student sample.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Individuals with misophonia display extreme sensitivities to selective sounds, often resulting in negative emotions and subsequent maladaptive behaviors, such as avoidance and anger outbursts. While there has been increasing interest in misophonia, few data have been published to date.
  
  
  METHODS
  This study investigated the incidence, phenomenology, correlates, and impairment associated with misophonia symptoms in 483 undergraduate students through self-report measures.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Misophonia was a relatively common phenomenon, with nearly 20% of the sample reporting clinically significant misophonia symptoms. Furthermore, misophonia symptoms demonstrated strong associations with measures of impairment and general sensory sensitivities, and moderate associations with obsessive-compulsive, anxiety, and depressive symptoms. Anxiety mediated the relationship between misophonia and anger outbursts.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This investigation contributes to a better understanding of misophonia and indicates potential factors that may co-occur and influence the clinical presentation of a person with misophonia symptoms.
authors.affiliation: University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine; University of South Florida, Department of Psychology.
authors.forename: Monica S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Adam B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Lewin
authors.forename: Tanya K
authors.initials: TK
authors.lastname: Murphy
authors.forename: Eric A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Storch
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000786:Anger / Q000502:physiology; D001007:Anxiety / Q000453:epidemiology; D001308:Auditory Perceptual Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D015897:Comorbidity; D003863:Depression / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000453:epidemiology; D057566:Self Report; D012678:Sensation Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*; D013334:Students / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: adult; impairment; misophonia; obsessive-compulsive disorder; phenomenology