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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"thought suppression"”.
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The Relation Among Thought Suppression, Forgetting, and Mental Health
… haunt us, the worries that consume us, or the thoughts that just never seem to stop. Our ability to forget should not only be studied as a reaction – a failure to remember, a symptom in patients, or a response to unprocessed trauma. Rather, forgetting can and has been increasingly studied …
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Thought Suppression Change in Cancer Patients and Survivors After Writing
… cancer have also been found to be keeping their thoughts inside. Thought suppression has been linked to many negative consequences, such as anxiety and depression. To investigate, a writing paradigm was introduced to breast cancer patients as survivors. An expected link between expressive writing …
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An Examination of a Potential Moderator of the Relationship Between Thought Suppression and Preoccupation with Previously Suppressed Thoughts
Findings from numerous laboratory studies on thought suppression suggest that engaging in deliberate thought suppression may lead to the ironic effects of becoming preoccupied by the very same thoughts one wishes to avoid. Based on the results of these laboratory studies, a sophisticated model of …
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Impact of Religiosity on Coping with Intrusive Thoughts
Intrusive thoughts are unwanted, distressing thoughts that are experienced by the majority of individuals, and are one of the key features of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). It is theorized that maladaptive beliefs about intrusive thoughts, such as thoughtaction fusion (TAF) beliefs, as well …
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Mindfulness as a Predictor of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptomatology in an Experiential Avoidance Model
… avoidance measures of alexithymia and thought suppression were the most robust predictors of PTSD avoidance symptom severity, but mindfulness predicted more individual variance than measures of emotional coping, emotional intelligence, and a general measure of experiential avoidance. …
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Mindfulness as a Predictor of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptomatology in an Experiential Avoidance Model
… avoidance measures of alexithymia and thought suppression were the most robust predictors of PTSD avoidance symptom severity, but mindfulness predicted more individual variance than measures of emotional coping, emotional intelligence, and a general measure of experiential avoidance. …
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Gender differences in worry and associated cognitive-behavioural variables
… also reported engaging in significantly more thought suppression and negative problem orientation than men. A non-significant trend emerged for a closer relationship between positive beliefs about worry and trait worry for men. It is postulated that thought suppression and negative problem …
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Posttraumatic stress symptoms in young people with cancer and their siblings
… maladaptive appraisals, traumacentred identity, thought suppression, perceived social support and family functioning were completed. Results: There were no significant differences between children with cancer and siblings on measures of PTSS. In support of the hypotheses, maladaptive appraisals, …
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Forgetfulness of Things Past: The Impact of Suppression and Metacognitive Beliefs on the Intrusion of Autobiographical and Non-Autobiographical Memories
The flow of human thoughts is frequently plagued by unwanted cognitive activity, which has the unfortunate power to interfere with task performance, planning, social behaviour, and many other aspects of our lives. Importantly, repetitive negative thoughts and memories play a major role in …
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Trait Affective, Behavioral, and Cognitive Factors of Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms in Children and Adolescents: A Hierarchical Model
… sensitivity, intolerance of uncertainty, and thought suppression). Results were more mixed when predicting specific sets of internalizing symptoms with intolerance of uncertainty having the greatest impact on obsessive-compulsive and generalized anxiety symptoms. Specific pathways are …
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Psychological correlates of well-being in direct care staff in services for children with intellectual disabilities and challenging behaviour
… Two investigates whether experiential avoidance, thought suppression and mindfulness, which has been found to be significant predictors of mental health outcomes outside of the learning disabilities field, provides a psychological mechanism for understanding the relationship<br/>between negative …
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Testing A Brief Directive Intervention To Reduce Symptoms Associated With Trauma
… was also significantly better at reducing thought suppression and rumination, and at increasing cognitive acceptance of the trauma. DP also shosignificant reduction in alexithymia, which was not shown by EW. Assessment of distress levels during the interventions suggest EW achieves …
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A Window to the Mind: Validation of a New Method to Measure Thought Dynamics Using Brain Network Meta-State Transitions
… to the next (i.e., the flights and perches of thought; James, 1890). Can we pinpoint these moments of flight directly from neural signals? I drew upon the Human Connectome Project’s Young Adult functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) dataset to characterize the psychological meaning of …
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Personal Beliefs and Public Print: The Influence of Pre-Existing Attitudes and Pretrial Publicity Information on Final Verdicts
… situations, and that psychological reactance, thought suppression and ironic processes provide better explanations for use of PTP, despite instructions to discourage use, than belief perseverance. Additionally, the effects of other attitudes specific to the case and the relationship between …
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Exploring the relationship between anxiety sensitivity and heart rate variability
… HF-HRV has shown associations with other traits thought to underlie psychopathology (e.g., worry, difficulty with thought suppression). The present study sought to explore a plausible relationship between AS and HRV. Participants were recruited from the Eastern Michigan University campus …
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On Developing the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP) as a Tool for Quantifying Tobacco Addiction
… it involves experientially avoidant tactics like thought suppression. Accordingly, Chapter 8 concludes by recommending the IRAP, with certain important qualifications, as a useful means of quantifying tobacco addiction in such a way as to begin clarifying the motivational problem(s) that …
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Intentional forgetting in depressed states
… both groups were unsuccessful at direct thought suppression. However, there was no effect of rumination on dysphoric individuals' ability to intentionally forget material. Furthermore, there was also no group differences in attentional measures of Stroop and IDEO. The second experiment …