Journal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry
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J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry · Dec 2013
Mood, stop-rules and task persistence: no mood-as-input effects in the context of pain.
Task persistence despite experiencing pain might be a risk factor for development and maintenance of chronic pain. The Mood-as-Input (MAI) model predicts that the impact of mood on individuals' motivation to persist in a task depends on the interpretation of current mood within a certain motivational context. The aim of the current study was to replicate the original MAI study (Martin, Ward, Achee, & Wyer, 1993), but in a context where the task is painful. ⋯ These findings may not generalize to task performance in patients with chronic pain.
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J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry · Dec 2013
Within the mind's eye: Negative mental imagery activates different emotion regulation strategies in high versus low socially anxious individuals.
The link between social anxiety (SA) and maladaptive emotion regulation has been clearly established, but little is known about the spontaneous regulation strategies that may be activated during social stress by negative involuntary mental images and whether the nature of such strategies might distinguish individuals with high vs. low trait SA. ⋯ Although these initial findings require replication in future experimental studies on clinical samples, they also help to enrich our understanding of the strategies that are commonly used by high and low SA individuals to manage their image intrusions during in-vivo stress and suggest potential avenues for future research on the role of imagery in adaptive and maladaptive emotion regulation.