Background: Intense fear of flying, called aviophobia, is a highly prevalent psychological phenomenon, afflicting (in some estimates) up to 40% of the population of industrialized countries and although aviophobia is a highly prevalent mental health problem, published studies about its epidemiology and treatment are rare.
Methods: In this study, including 61 participants (28 males and 33 females; mean age 26.85) engaged in business related travels in the last two years, we assessed relationships of fear of flying problems with symptoms of stress also reflecting childhood traumatic stress experiences and its influences on brain sensitization and epileptic-like symptoms. In this assessment we also studied fear of flying symptoms and work related psychological problems described as burnout.
Results: The results show that the participants who manifest higher levels of stress symptoms have higher levels of aviophobic experiences. Stress symptoms measured by TSC-40 manifested significant correlations with aviophobic experiences measured by Flight Anxiety Modality Questionnaire (FAS) (Spearman R=0.46, p< 0.01). Other correlations were found between FAS and Limbic System Checklist (LSCL-33) (Spearman R=0.39, p< 0.01) and FAS and Burnout Measure (BM) (Spearman R=0.30, p< 0.01).
Conclusion: The results of this study indicate that the experience of fear of flying is related to past and recent stressful events and also to levels of work related problems described and experienced as burnout.



中文翻译：

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害怕飞行、压力和癫痫样症状

背景：对飞行的强烈恐惧，称为“飞行恐惧症”，是一种非常普遍的心理现象，困扰着工业化国家高达 40% 的人口（据某些估计），尽管飞行恐惧症是一个非常普遍的心理健康问题，但已发表了关于其流行病学和治疗很少见。
方法：在这项研究中，包括过去两年内从事商务相关旅行的 61 名参与者（28 名男性和 33 名女性；平均年龄 26.85 岁），我们评估了对飞行问题的恐惧与压力症状之间的关系，这些症状也反映了童年创伤性压力经历和它对大脑敏化和癫痫样症状的影响。在这次评估中，我们还研究了对飞行的恐惧症状和被称为倦怠的与工作相关的心理问题。
结果：结果表明，表现出较高水平压力症状的参与者有较高水平的恐鸟经历。 TSC-40 测量的压力症状与飞行焦虑模态问卷 (FAS) 测量的恐航经历显着相关（Spearman R=0.46，p < 0.01）。 FAS 和边缘系统检查表 (LSCL-33)（Spearman R=0.39，p<0.01）以及 FAS 和倦怠测量（BM）（Spearman R=0.30，p<0.01）之间还存在其他相关性。
结论：这项研究的结果表明，对飞行的恐惧经历与过去和最近的压力事件有关，也与被描述和经历的职业倦怠问题的水平有关。