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.
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J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry · Jun 2013
Vividness of general mental imagery is associated with the occurrence of intrusive memories.
Intrusive memories of traumatic events constitute a core feature of post-traumatic stress disorder. However, the association of pre-traumatic factors with post-traumatic intrusive memories is still only poorly understood. The current study investigated the extent to which vividness of general mental imagery prior to an analogue stressor is positively associated with occurrence of intrusive images following such a stressor. ⋯ The findings indicate that high levels of vividness of general mental imagery may contribute to the development of intrusive imaginal memories following exposure to traumatic events.
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J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry · Jun 2013
Effects of responsibility and mood on painful task persistence.
Not just avoidance behaviour, but also painful task persistence might be a risk factor for development and maintenance of pain complaints. In seeking to understand these dysfunctional patterns of task performance, it has been suggested that mood influences the individuals' motivation to persist in a task depending on the interpretation of current mood within a certain motivational context. The aim of the present study was to test the effects of a social responsibility context and mood on persistence on a painful finger pressing task. ⋯ This experimental study was the first to demonstrate an effect of sense of responsibility on persistence in a painful physical task.
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J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry · Dec 2012
Randomized Controlled TrialThe effects of acceptance and suppression on anticipation and receipt of painful stimulation.
Previous research has found that in some contexts, suppression increases distress, whereas acceptance decreases distress. It is not clear, however, whether these two common forms of emotion regulation have comparable or divergent physiological and behavioral effects during the anticipation and receipt of a painful stimulus. ⋯ In contrast to previous research, we found that both acceptance and suppression are effective in reducing pain and anxiety in response to experimentally induced pain.