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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"cognitive distortions"”.
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Content analysis of cognitive distortions in pedophiles' online forum posts
… lead research to examine pedophile's cognitive distortions. This exploratory study examined pedophiles' website forum posts to determine if any posters demonstrated cognitive distortions. Four independent raters used content analysis to determine which cognitive distortions were …
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Vicarious Traumatization in Therapists: Contributing Factors, PTSD Symptomatology, and Cognitive Distortions
… social support predict hyperarousal symptoms and cognitive distortions above and beyond the effects of therapists' personal variables. Qualitative results revealed the importance of maintaining a balance between professional and personal support, a holistic attention to body and mind that includes …
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Parental bonding, adult romantic attachment, fear of intimacy, and cognitive distortions among child molesters.
… and the future; the fear of intimacy; and cognitive distortions among child molesters and non-offending controls. Child molesters receiving sex offender treatment reported more problematic parental bonding; insecure adult romantic attachment; negative views of self, world/others, and the …
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The effects of cognitive distortions in sex offenders and non-sex offenders with mild learning disabilities
Cognitive distortions of sexual offenders with or without learning disabilities are considered to play a vital role in the etiology and maintenance of sexually deviant behaviour. This assumption has driven research to focus on investigating the cognitive content of distorted cognitions held by …
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Exploring relationships between moral reasoning, distorted cognitions and problem solving in male offenders with intellectual disabilities
… people with IDs were explored. The difference in cognitive distortions, moral reasoning and problem solving between offenders and non-offenders were explored. Very few published studies explored these constructs in this way. Methods: A between-groups design and additional correlations were used to …
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Rationalizing Ethically Questionable Intentions: An Investigation of Marketing Practices in the USA.
… that marketers, in general, are capable of the cognitive distortions found in this study. The main contribution to knowledge is the synthesis of the techniques of neutralization and the perceived moral intensity construct. Through this amalgamation, knowledge of the intermediary steps in the …
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Disgust propensity, fear of contamination and underlying dimensions of obsessive-compulsive symptoms
… or sensation-based rather than a result of cognitive distortions in people whose contamination symptoms are related to the emotion of disgust. Such patients may engage in compulsions when feeling disgusted not because they need to avoid possible future harm but rather because they cannot get …
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Eye of the Beholder: Examining Performance-Inhibiting Thoughts of Artists Through The Lens Of Leadership Coaching
… artists to new levels of awareness of their cognitive distortions. Among the findings is that the coaching emphasis for artists should not be what society says they should want or aspire to, but what the individual artists want and aspires to, according to the standards they themselves set. …
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Gambling behavior through the lens of big data
… from methodological biases rather than true cognitive distortions. Second, it presents a machine learning framework that autonomously identifies and predicts problem gamblers without relying on self-reported labels. This approach uses unsupervised clustering to classify gambling intensity and …
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Contextualizing Unconventional Beliefs And Ritual Activity: A Case Study Of Moderate Risk And Problem Slot Machine Gamblers
… of problem gamblers may not only be viewed as cognitive distortions. An alternative view is that they might also be understood as a problematic belief system that is as “normal” as any other belief system, only that these beliefs are non-rational instead of irrational and thereby resistant to …
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Fat Talk Between Friends: Co-Rumination About Physical Appearance
… revealed that FTBF was related to body image cognitive distortions and disturbed eating attitudes, yet it was paradoxically related to perceived friendship quality. These findings suggest that FTBF involves adjustment trade-offs, in that, it seems to positively contribute to friendship quality …
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The Effects of Perspective-Taking Training on Empathy Development in Adult Male Sex Offenders
… empathy skills, (2) decreased endorsement of cognitive distortions predisposing child sexual abuse and rape, and (3) a decreased use of narcissistic defenses. Six tests were administered before and after the empathy modules to measure these constructs. Analysis of Covariance was used to …
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A proposed typology for paedophilia: a grounded theory analysis of online discourse
… the platform to construct an identity, using cognitive distortions, that was more favourable to them than the one imposed by society. This was largely informed by the notion that child sexual abuse needn’t be harmful. Others eschewed child sexual abuse, preferring to satisfy their urges by …
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A Reasonable Officer: Examining the Relationship between Stress, Training, and Performance in Use of Force Encounters
… reactions in officers, which can result in cognitive and perceptual deficits, as well as inferior performance. These effects can be particularly detrimental during a critical incident, when officers are expected to demonstrate sound judgement and proficient performance. This dissertation …
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Bystanders' experiences of school bullying following a self-debasing cognitive distortion restructuring intervention
… bullying could have stemmed from self-debasing cognitive distortions and errors in thinking patterns which included personalisation, catastrophising, over-generalisation and selective abstraction. For this reason, the purpose of this qualitative descriptive-exploratory study was to explore and …
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Producers of indecent images of children : a qualitative analysis of the aetiology and development of their offending patterns
… those who were covert about their behaviour. The cognitive distortions that supported the behaviour suggest minimising of harm and distancing techniques. The function of the production behaviour was not found to be exclusively sexual and included a variety of other motivating factors, ranging from …
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The effect of violent video game playing on gamer's views of victims of crime
… specific set of moral disengagement strategies (cognitive restructuring) than sports players and this may be related to the structures of the games, both virtual and sporting. In relation to female gamers, gaming was found to be a key element of the female gamers’ identity, with females …
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"Every picture tells a story". A study of those who gather and accumulate legal and illegal images
… collectors. The function of collecting served cognitive, emotional, behavioural and social functions, and seems to be perpetuated by both positive and negative reinforcement. A possible pathological collecting function was identified for a small minority of IIOC offenders in study three, and …