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Predictors of polyregulation and its effectiveness following exposure to One's most personally distressing intrusive thought

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Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry Pub Date : 2024-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbtep.2024.102001

Katharine E. Daniel , Sabine Wilhelm , Ryan J. Jacoby

{"title":"Predictors of polyregulation and its effectiveness following exposure to One's most personally distressing intrusive thought","authors":"Katharine E. Daniel , Sabine Wilhelm , Ryan J. Jacoby","doi":"10.1016/j.jbtep.2024.102001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbtep.2024.102001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background and objectives</h3><div>Using multiple emotion regulation strategies in response to a single stressor—known as polyregulation—is an understudied but common event. The role of polyregulation in psychological disorders characterized by repetitive negative thinking (RNT) is unexplored, despite well-documented difficulties in emotion regulation and strong urges to avoid and escape one's intrusive thoughts in RNT.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Participants (<em>N</em> = 60) either had clinical levels of RNT (<em>n</em> = 15 with worries, <em>n</em> = 14 with ruminations, <em>n</em> = 16 with obsessions) or non-clinical levels of RNT (<em>n</em> = 15) and were exposed to their most personally distressing intrusive thought during an in-lab task. Proportional odds logistic regressions were used to test if RNT group and situation-level factors predicted greater polyregulation following the thought exposure. Multilevel regressions were used to test the short-term effectiveness of polyregulation on subjective distress and psychophysiological responding (heart rate, skin conductance).</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Ninety percent of participants reported using two or more strategies following intrusive thought exposure. Extent of polyregulation was not significantly predicted by RNT group, most situation-level factors, or short-term regulatory effectiveness. Endorsing a greater need to control one's intrusive thought did, however, predict use of more strategies.</div></div><div><h3>Limitations</h3><div>This is a secondary analysis in a small sample.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>Given treatments for psychological disorders characterized by RNT attempt to disrupt the connection between a person's urge to control their distressing thoughts and efforts to escape or avoid those thoughts, continued investigation into the role of polyregulation in intrusive thinking may guide clinical intervention.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48198,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry","volume":"86 ","pages":"Article 102001"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142756794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Ecological momentary assessment models trajectories of expectancy following exposure: A proof-of-concept pilot study

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Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry Pub Date : 2024-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbtep.2024.102000

Olivia M. Losiewicz, Anastasia L. McGlade, Michael Treanor, Michelle G. Craske

{"title":"Ecological momentary assessment models trajectories of expectancy following exposure: A proof-of-concept pilot study","authors":"Olivia M. Losiewicz, Anastasia L. McGlade, Michael Treanor, Michelle G. Craske","doi":"10.1016/j.jbtep.2024.102000","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbtep.2024.102000","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background and objectives</h3><div>The Inhibitory Retrieval Approach to exposure therapy for fears and anxiety emphasizes prediction error as one of several strategies for improving outcomes. Prediction error depends on disconfirmation of expectancies for the feared outcome, and thus exposure strategies that derive from inhibitory retrieval approaches emphasize expectancy violation during exposure. However, research studies examining expectancy violation in exposure therapy have treated expectancy as a stable characteristic, assuming that expectancy following an exposure exercise remains constant over time. This brief report outlines two different uses of a methodology for using ecological momentary assessment (EMA) to assess between-session expectancy following exposure during treatment for anxiety, and reports on pilot trial results.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Adults with social anxiety disorder (<em>N</em> = 12) and spider phobia (<em>N</em> = 31) taking part in larger trials investigating exposure therapy completed EMA questionnaires assessing expectancy for their feared outcome for 2–4 days following each of two exposure sessions.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Expectancy ratings decreased from pre-to post-exposure and remained stable for 2–4 days following exposure.</div></div><div><h3>Limitations</h3><div>This pilot study used a very limited sample size and should be replicated in a larger sample.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>Expectancy for feared outcome may be assessed using EMA following exposure sessions. Pilot results suggest that expectancy decreases immediately following exposures and remains stable afterwards.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48198,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry","volume":"86 ","pages":"Article 102000"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142756796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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To be aware or not aware: Do intrusions with and without meta-awareness differ?

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Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry Pub Date : 2024-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbtep.2024.102002

Catherine A. Keeping, Reginald D.V. Nixon, Victoria M.E. Bridgland, Melanie K.T. Takarangi

{"title":"To be aware or not aware: Do intrusions with and without meta-awareness differ?","authors":"Catherine A. Keeping, Reginald D.V. Nixon, Victoria M.E. Bridgland, Melanie K.T. Takarangi","doi":"10.1016/j.jbtep.2024.102002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbtep.2024.102002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>People sometimes re-experience traumatic events via intrusive memories that spontaneously and unintentionally intrude into consciousness (i.e., intrusions). Such intrusions can be experienced without explicit awareness (i.e., <em>meta-awareness</em>). However, we do not know whether intrusions with and without meta-awareness differ in how people experience them (i.e., characteristics) or react to them via maladaptive responses (i.e., suppression, negative interpretations), and therefore whether they are important to differentiate. To investigate this issue, we asked participants to watch a trauma analogue film and—during a subsequent unrelated reading task—intermittently probed them to capture and assess <em>one</em> film-related intrusion. Intrusion meta-awareness positively correlated with intrusion negativity, re-experiencing, and suppression, but not with how people interpreted the meaning of their intrusion. Our findings suggest intrusions with and without meta-awareness can differ in how they are experienced and associated with thought suppression—highlighting the importance of considering both types of intrusions in theory and practice.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48198,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry","volume":"86 ","pages":"Article 102002"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142757508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Joint attention effect on irrelevant stimuli resistance in high functional autism and neurotypical adults

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Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry Pub Date : 2024-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbtep.2024.102005

Brunetti Marcella , Alessandrelli Riccardo , Ceci Franca , D.'Andrea Antea , Pettorruso Mauro , Martinotti Giovanni , Di Matteo Rosalia

{"title":"Joint attention effect on irrelevant stimuli resistance in high functional autism and neurotypical adults","authors":"Brunetti Marcella , Alessandrelli Riccardo , Ceci Franca , D.'Andrea Antea , Pettorruso Mauro , Martinotti Giovanni , Di Matteo Rosalia","doi":"10.1016/j.jbtep.2024.102005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbtep.2024.102005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background and objectives</h3><div>Clinical practice reveals that individuals with autism characterized by the absence of cognitive impairment (High Functioning Autism-HFA) show difficulty in sharing attention with unfamiliar people. We hypothesized that this difficulty could affect cognitive control by selectively impairing stimulus-encoding or response-selection.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Twenty-one HFA and 23 neurotypical adults were involved in a two-phase study. The first phase was performed at home, through an online link; the second one was held four months later in our laboratory in the presence of two experimenters. A letter-flanker task was administered in both phases. In the Stimulus-Response (SR) conflict condition, the target and flankers were assigned to the same/different response keys. In the Stimulus-Stimulus (SS) conflict condition, the target and flankers were perceptually similar/dissimilar. Two mixed-ANOVAs were conducted on response times and accuracy with Phases (Home vs Lab), Groups (HFA, Neurotypical), SR conditions (congruent, incongruent, neutral) and SS conditions (congruent, incongruent) as factors.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Results show that only HFAs' inhibition ability was negatively affected by the experimenters’ presence compared to when they were alone, by reducing accuracy when dealing with an SS conflict.</div></div><div><h3>Limitations</h3><div>The differences between the home-phase and lab-phase sessions require further elaboration to understanding the nature of social interaction during the lab session.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>These results suggest that, for HFA, the “at home” context, free from social and emotional pressure, allowed them to emphasize their detail-focused cognitive style.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48198,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry","volume":"86 ","pages":"Article 102005"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142756797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Further analyses of appraisals of losing control and other OCD-related cognitions: A quasi-experimental investigation

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Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry Pub Date : 2024-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbtep.2024.101998

Andrea Sandstrom, Adam S. Radomsky

{"title":"Further analyses of appraisals of losing control and other OCD-related cognitions: A quasi-experimental investigation","authors":"Andrea Sandstrom, Adam S. Radomsky","doi":"10.1016/j.jbtep.2024.101998","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbtep.2024.101998","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background and objectives</h3><div>Cognitive models of OCD posit that dysfunctional beliefs contribute to the maintenance of symptoms. In addition to well-established belief domains, beliefs about losing control has been identified as a novel cognitive domain which may influence OCD phenomena, including other dysfunctional beliefs. However, the exact nature of these relationships and whether such relationships are influenced by OCD symptoms is unclear. The aim of this study was to examine the relationships between appraisals of losing control and other OCD-relevant appraisals in individuals scoring high and low on OCD symptoms.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>137 participants completed a vignette task describing hypothetical scenarios relevant to OCD (doubting and aggressive thoughts) which varied in the level of losing control (high vs. low) and answered questions to assess other OCD-relevant appraisals.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>There was a significant main effect of losing control appraisals on other OCD-relevant appraisals in the aggressive thought vignettes but not in the doubting vignettes. OCD symptoms had a significant effect on OCD-relevant appraisals in both the aggressive thought and doubting vignettes. There were no significant interactions.</div></div><div><h3>Limitations</h3><div>Appraisals of losing control did not significantly differ in the doubting vignettes suggesting the impact of the manipulation may have been limited.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>Findings suggest that both appraisals of losing control and level of OCD symptoms may be associated with other OCD-relevant appraisals, however these effects may be independent of one another.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48198,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry","volume":"86 ","pages":"Article 101998"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142756795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The role of desired positive affect in depression in daily life

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Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry Pub Date : 2024-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbtep.2024.101999

Sunkyung Yoon, Heejoo Kim, Sooyeon Kim, Yunsu Kim, Eunbi Kang

{"title":"The role of desired positive affect in depression in daily life","authors":"Sunkyung Yoon, Heejoo Kim, Sooyeon Kim, Yunsu Kim, Eunbi Kang","doi":"10.1016/j.jbtep.2024.101999","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbtep.2024.101999","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Emotion goals (desired affect) have been theorized to play an essential role in a person's emotional experiences, guiding emotion regulation processes toward experiencing desired states. Hence, understanding whether and which emotion goals are associated with reduced negative states is crucial for individuals struggling to regulate these states, such as persons with depression. Using ecological momentary assessment (EMA), we examined the relationship between momentary desired positive affect and subsequent depressive affect in daily life, as well as future depressive symptoms, among individuals with depressive disorders.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>A total of 50 female participants with depression reported their momentary desire for high arousal positive (HAP), low arousal positive states (LAP), and depressive affect three times a day for seven days. In addition, participants reported depressive symptoms at both baseline and four weeks after.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Momentary desired LAP moderated the relationship between prior and subsequent depressive affect: the more a person wanted to feel LAP at the prior time point, the weaker the relationship between prior and subsequent depressive affect.</div></div><div><h3>Limitations</h3><div>The relatively short interval between the EMA and the follow-up measurement of depressive symptoms may have influenced the results.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>Results elucidated the role of desired affect, particularly desired LAP, in depression in daily life.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48198,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry","volume":"86 ","pages":"Article 101999"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142756966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Sensitivity and response bias in non-clinical social anxiety to detect changes in facial expressions

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Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry Pub Date : 2024-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbtep.2024.102003

Jing Yuan , Xiang Chen , Zhaoxia Wang , Xiaomin Zhao , Yan Wang , Zejun Liu

{"title":"Sensitivity and response bias in non-clinical social anxiety to detect changes in facial expressions","authors":"Jing Yuan , Xiang Chen , Zhaoxia Wang , Xiaomin Zhao , Yan Wang , Zejun Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.jbtep.2024.102003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbtep.2024.102003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background and objectives</h3><div>Previous research has not established a consensus on the ability of higher socially anxious individuals to detect facial expressions. The purpose of this study was to examine this issue using Signal Detection Theory (SDT) as a framework.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Participants with higher levels of social anxiety (HSA) and lower levels of social anxiety (LSA) were instructed to complete a change-detection task. Prototypical (faces with congruent eyes and mouth, i.e., happy eyes and a smiling mouth) and blended (faces with incongruent eyes and mouth, i.e., neutral eyes and a happy mouth) facial expressions were used as stimuli. Participants had to decide whether the facial expression indicated by the cue was \"the same\" or \"different\".</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>The results revealed that the HSA group had a higher sensitivity (<em>d’</em>) to detect changes in facial expressions compared to the LSA group. The LSA group had a higher <em>d’</em> to detect prototypical angry expressions than to blended angry expressions. However, this difference was not found in the HSA group. In addition, the HSA group displayed more leniency in judging angry expressions as being the same compared to the LSA group.</div></div><div><h3>Limitations</h3><div>The external validity of the study is limited by the sample (low levels of depression, mostly male).</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>Higher socially anxious individuals are more sensitive in detecting changes and are more lenient in judging changes in angry expressions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48198,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry","volume":"86 ","pages":"Article 102003"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142757514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The effect of feedback in attention training on Attention Bias to Threat in individuals with Sluggish Cognitive Tempo 注意力训练中的反馈对认知节奏缓慢者的威胁注意力偏差的影响

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Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry Pub Date : 2024-09-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbtep.2024.101997

Kyunghwa Kim, Jang-Han Lee

{"title":"The effect of feedback in attention training on Attention Bias to Threat in individuals with Sluggish Cognitive Tempo","authors":"Kyunghwa Kim, Jang-Han Lee","doi":"10.1016/j.jbtep.2024.101997","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbtep.2024.101997","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background and objectives</h3><p>This study was conducted to identify the characteristics of attentional bias of individuals with Sluggish Cognitive Tempo (SCT) and how Attention Bias to Threat (ABT) changes when feedback was provided in attention training.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>First, a dot probe task was conducted to confirm the ABT of the SCT feedback group (N = 27) and SCT no feedback group (N = 25), and healthy control group (N = 30) before intervention. Thereafter, a VR-based attention training was conducted three times with feedback or no feedback. Finally, a dot probe task was executed again.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>The SCT groups showed a higher ABT than the healthy control group. A result of the attention training, the reaction time of disengage was significantly reduced when provided feedback. In addition, it was confirmed that the ABT of the SCT group that received feedback, was significantly reduced.</p></div><div><h3>Limitations</h3><p>First, the only stimulus used to examine the ABT was the angry face, and the reaction time to other threatening facial expressions was not confirmed. Second, attention training was conducted three times, but further studies are needed on the effect of the duration of training on the magnitude of effect.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>This study identified ABT associated with internalizing symptoms of SCT and suggests that attention training with immediate and continuous feedback is needed to reduce ABT.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48198,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry","volume":"86 ","pages":"Article 101997"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142238384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Examining the causal effects of social exclusion on shame and dissociative detachment 研究社会排斥对羞耻感和分离性脱离的因果影响

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Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry Pub Date : 2024-09-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbtep.2024.101996

Ashley K.H. Catton, Kumar Yogeeswaran, Martin J. Dorahy

{"title":"Examining the causal effects of social exclusion on shame and dissociative detachment","authors":"Ashley K.H. Catton, Kumar Yogeeswaran, Martin J. Dorahy","doi":"10.1016/j.jbtep.2024.101996","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbtep.2024.101996","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background and objectives</h3><p>Dissociative detachment experiences (e.g., derealization, absorption) underpin much psychopathology and are often researched in relation to co-occurring affective states such as shame, the latter being known to occur in situations involving actual or perceived negative social evaluation. The association between shame and dissociative detachment may also be moderated by individual differences in people's need to belong. The goal of the present study was to experimentally investigate the effects of social exclusion on shame and dissociative detachment depending on perceivers' need to belong.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>After measuring individual differences in need to belong and shame proneness, the Cyberball paradigm was utilized to communicate either social inclusion or exclusion. Following Cyberball, a sample of 281 participants completed measures of state shame and state dissociation.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>Social exclusion increased dissociative detachment, and these effects were mediated by increases in state shame. These effects were particularly evident among people with a high need to belong.</p></div><div><h3>Limitations</h3><p>Other individual differences such as rejection sensitivity may also moderate the relationship between exclusion and shame. While Cyberball can be used to investigate shame, it can only induce shame via social exclusion, whereas shame can also be elicited in other ways such as performance failure.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>Social exclusion can elicit shame, which is most acutely felt by those with a strong need to belong, and this aversive experience appears to be managed by dissociative detachment.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48198,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry","volume":"86 ","pages":"Article 101996"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0005791624000557/pdfft?md5=681de8a0e3c3c163e2288c5acf1604c6&pid=1-s2.0-S0005791624000557-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142272748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Fighting OCD together: An experimental study of the effectiveness and acceptability of seeking and receiving emotional support for OCD 共同对抗强迫症：强迫症患者寻求和接受情感支持的有效性和可接受性实验研究

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Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry Pub Date : 2024-08-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbtep.2024.101987

Chiara Causier , Paul Salkovskis

{"title":"Fighting OCD together: An experimental study of the effectiveness and acceptability of seeking and receiving emotional support for OCD","authors":"Chiara Causier , Paul Salkovskis","doi":"10.1016/j.jbtep.2024.101987","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbtep.2024.101987","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Excessive reassurance-seeking in OCD has been linked to the maintenance of OCD, functioning as a type of checking ritual. Current treatments recommend the imposition of the extinction of seeking and providing reassurance; however, this is not well tolerated. Although it has been suggested that the provision of support may provide a more helpful alternative, there is no empirical evidence for this. In the present study, 36 participants with OCD engaged with two personalised semi-idiographic scenarios in which they imagined seeking and receiving reassurance and seeking and receiving emotional support in counterbalanced order. The primary outcome measure was anticipated urge to seek reassurance, which was found to significantly decrease in the imagined support condition relative to the imagined reassurance condition regardless of order of presentation. Emotional support was perceived as significantly more acceptable when compared to imagining reassurance in terms of higher ratings of perceived helpfulness in managing emotions, feelings of calmness and closeness, and the sense that they were fighting OCD together. These findings provide preliminary evidence for the value of encouraging the seeking and giving of emotional support as an alternative to reassurance. Implications for clinical work and further research are discussed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48198,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry","volume":"86 ","pages":"Article 101987"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0005791624000466/pdfft?md5=26db366420d9b66343583b8544943764&pid=1-s2.0-S0005791624000466-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142129430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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