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Imagery rescripting and extinction: Effects on US expectancy, US revaluation, and the generalization of fear reduction 意象重描和消减：对美国预期、美国重估和恐惧减少的普遍性的影响

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Behaviour Research and Therapy Pub Date : 2024-04-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2024.104544

M. Woelk , M.A. Hagenaars , F. Raes , B. Vervliet , J. Krans

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Exploring the ‘black box’ of anxiety: An ERP study of non-consciously triggered fear generalization 探索焦虑的 "黑匣子"：对非有意识触发的恐惧泛化的 ERP 研究

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Behaviour Research and Therapy Pub Date : 2024-04-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2024.104552

Ying Mei , Benjamin Becker , Paavo H.T. Leppänen , Yi Lei

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Not just emotion regulation, but cognition: An experience sampling study testing the relations of ecological interpretation biases and use of emotion regulation strategies with momentary affective states during daily life functioning 不仅是情绪调节，还有认知一项经验取样研究，测试日常生活中生态解释偏差和情绪调节策略的使用与瞬间情绪状态之间的关系

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Behaviour Research and Therapy Pub Date : 2024-04-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2024.104550

Teresa Boemo , Oscar Martín-Garcia , Ana Mar Pacheco-Romero , Ivan Blanco , Ginette Lafit , Inez Myin-Germeys , Alvaro Sanchez-Lopez

{"title":"Not just emotion regulation, but cognition: An experience sampling study testing the relations of ecological interpretation biases and use of emotion regulation strategies with momentary affective states during daily life functioning","authors":"Teresa Boemo , Oscar Martín-Garcia , Ana Mar Pacheco-Romero , Ivan Blanco , Ginette Lafit , Inez Myin-Germeys , Alvaro Sanchez-Lopez","doi":"10.1016/j.brat.2024.104550","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.brat.2024.104550","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><p>Current research is moving from studying cognitive biases and maladaptive emotion regulation (ER) as relatively stable phenomena contributing to affective disturbances, adopting ecological methodologies, such as Experience Sampling Methods (ESM). However, there is still limited ESM evidence on the interactions between stress and ER strategies’ use, and negative interpretation biases, regarding their relations with momentary affective states. In this study, we used a new ESM design to disentangle the contextual, regulatory and cognitive processes implicated in daily affective experiences.</p></div><div><h3>Method</h3><p>A sample of 103 participants completed an ESM study (3 times a day for 10 days) that included self-reports of momentary affect, stress intensity, ER strategies’ use and a cognitive task measuring momentary negative interpretation biases.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>Multilevel analyses supported significant interactions of both rumination and worry with stress intensity, to account for momentary higher negative and lower positive affect levels. Furthermore, higher state negative interpretation bias levels uniquely predicted both higher negative and lower positive momentary affect levels.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><p>This study implemented a novel online cognitive task within an ESM procedure, which helped to disentangle how contextual ER strategies’ use and momentary cognitive biases uniquely relate to affective experiences in daily life.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48457,"journal":{"name":"Behaviour Research and Therapy","volume":"177 ","pages":"Article 104550"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140785302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Amplification of positivity for depression and anxiety: Neural prediction of treatment response 积极情绪对抑郁和焦虑的放大作用：治疗反应的神经预测

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Behaviour Research and Therapy Pub Date : 2024-04-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2024.104545

Maria Kryza-Lacombe , Isabella Spaulding , Cheuk King Ku , Nana Pearson , Murray B. Stein , Charles T. Taylor

{"title":"Amplification of positivity for depression and anxiety: Neural prediction of treatment response","authors":"Maria Kryza-Lacombe , Isabella Spaulding , Cheuk King Ku , Nana Pearson , Murray B. Stein , Charles T. Taylor","doi":"10.1016/j.brat.2024.104545","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.brat.2024.104545","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Psychosocial treatments targeting the positive valence system (PVS) in depression and anxiety demonstrate efficacy in enhancing positive affect (PA), but response to treatment varies. We examined whether individual differences in neural activation to positive and negative valence incentive cues underlies differences in benefitting from a PVS-targeted treatment. Individuals with clinically elevated depression and/or anxiety (N = 88, ages 18 to 55) participated in one of two randomized, waitlist-controlled trials of Amplification of Positivity (AMP; NCT02330627, NCT03196544), a cognitive and behavioral intervention targeting the PVS. Participants completed a monetary incentive delay (MID) task during fMRI acquisition at baseline measuring neural activation to the possibility of gaining or losing money. Change in PA from before to after treatment was assessed using the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule. No significant associations were observed between baseline neural activation during gain anticipation and AMP-related changes in PA in regions of interest (striatum and insula) or whole-brain analyses. However, higher baseline striatal and insula activation during loss anticipation was associated with greater increases in PA post-AMP. This study provides preliminary evidence suggesting neural reactivity to negative valence cues may inform who stands to benefit most from treatments targeting the PVS.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48457,"journal":{"name":"Behaviour Research and Therapy","volume":"178 ","pages":"Article 104545"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140772602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Can an intervention designed to reduce repetitive negative thinking alter the response to a psychosocial stressor? A randomized controlled study 旨在减少重复负面思维的干预措施能否改变对社会心理压力的反应？随机对照研究

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Behaviour Research and Therapy Pub Date : 2024-04-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2024.104547

Julia Funk , Keisuke Takano , Marina Babl , Rebecca Goldstein , Regina Oberwestersberger , Johannes Kopf-Beck , Nicolas Rohleder , Thomas Ehring

{"title":"Can an intervention designed to reduce repetitive negative thinking alter the response to a psychosocial stressor? A randomized controlled study","authors":"Julia Funk , Keisuke Takano , Marina Babl , Rebecca Goldstein , Regina Oberwestersberger , Johannes Kopf-Beck , Nicolas Rohleder , Thomas Ehring","doi":"10.1016/j.brat.2024.104547","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2024.104547","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Prior research suggests that repetitive negative thinking (RNT) negatively impacts mental health by intensifying and prolonging emotional reactivity to stress. This study investigated whether an intervention designed to reduce RNT alters emotional reactivity.</p><p>Young adults with high trait RNT (<em>N</em> = 79) were randomly allocated to an RNT-focused intervention (smartphone app-based, 10 days) or a waiting list before exposure to a standardized stressor.</p><p>The pre-registered analysis did not reveal a significant condition * time interaction for negative affect. However, exploratory analyses showed that whilst initial increases in negative affect in response to the stressor did not differ between conditions, participants in the intervention condition reported less negative affect throughout the following recovery phase. Additionally, participants in the intervention condition appraised their ability to cope with the stressor as higher and reported less RNT in the recovery phase. In contrast, the intervention did not affect biological stress responses.</p><p>The findings indicate that RNT-focused interventions might have positive effects on mental health by breaking the self-reinforcing cycle of RNT, negative affect and maladaptive appraisals in response to stress. However, as findings are partly based on exploratory analyses, further research is needed to confirm whether reduced subjective stress reactivity mediates the effects of RNT-focused interventions on psychopathological symptoms.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48457,"journal":{"name":"Behaviour Research and Therapy","volume":"178 ","pages":"Article 104547"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0005796724000743/pdfft?md5=2b8ac514c9f44749311f51ad9e64761d&pid=1-s2.0-S0005796724000743-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140650804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Shared and distinct effect mediators in exposure-based and traditional cognitive behavior therapy for fibromyalgia: Secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial 暴露疗法和传统认知行为疗法治疗纤维肌痛的共同效应和不同效应中介：随机对照试验的二次分析

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Behaviour Research and Therapy Pub Date : 2024-04-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2024.104546

Maria Hedman-Lagerlöf , Monica Buhrman , Erik Hedman-Lagerlöf , Brjánn Ljótsson , Erland Axelsson

{"title":"Shared and distinct effect mediators in exposure-based and traditional cognitive behavior therapy for fibromyalgia: Secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial","authors":"Maria Hedman-Lagerlöf , Monica Buhrman , Erik Hedman-Lagerlöf , Brjánn Ljótsson , Erland Axelsson","doi":"10.1016/j.brat.2024.104546","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.brat.2024.104546","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Fibromyalgia is a chronic pain condition associated with substantial suffering and societal costs. Traditional cognitive behavior therapy (T-CBT) is the most evaluated psychological treatment, but exposure therapy (Exp-CBT) has shown promise with a pronounced focus on the reduction of pain-related avoidance behaviors. In a recent randomized controlled trial (<em>N</em> = 274), we found that Exp-CBT was not superior to T-CBT (<em>d</em> = −0.10) in reducing overall fibromyalgia severity. This study investigated pain-related avoidance behaviors, pain catastrophizing, hypervigilance, pacing, overdoing and physical activity as potential mediators of the treatment effect. Mediation analyses were based on parallel process growth models fitted on 11 weekly measurement points, and week-by-week time-lagged effects were tested using random intercepts cross-lagged panel models. Results indicated that a reduction in avoidance behaviors, pain catastrophizing, and hypervigilance were significant mediators of change in both treatments. An increase in pacing and a reduction in overdoing were significant mediators in T-CBT only. Physical activity was not a mediator. In the time-lagged analyses, an unequivocal effect on subsequent fibromyalgia severity was seen of avoidance and catastrophizing in Exp-CBT, and of overdoing in T-CBT. Exposure-based and traditional CBT for fibromyalgia appear to share common treatment mediators, namely pain-related avoidance behavior, catastrophizing and hypervigilance.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48457,"journal":{"name":"Behaviour Research and Therapy","volume":"178 ","pages":"Article 104546"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0005796724000731/pdfft?md5=785c65d83d6d890973d77dd3205bbae5&pid=1-s2.0-S0005796724000731-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140763140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Threat sensitivity in emotion dynamics: Negativity effects and sex differences 情绪动态中的威胁敏感性：消极效应和性别差异

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Behaviour Research and Therapy Pub Date : 2024-04-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2024.104542

Michael D. Robinson, Roberta L. Irvin, Muhammad R. Asad

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Savoring changes novel positive mindset targets of GAD treatment: Optimism, prioritizing positivity, kill-joy thinking, and worry mediation 品味改变 GAD 治疗的新的积极心态目标：乐观、积极优先、杀戮思维和忧虑调解

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Behaviour Research and Therapy Pub Date : 2024-04-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2024.104541

Lucas S. LaFreniere , Michelle G. Newman

{"title":"Savoring changes novel positive mindset targets of GAD treatment: Optimism, prioritizing positivity, kill-joy thinking, and worry mediation","authors":"Lucas S. LaFreniere , Michelle G. Newman","doi":"10.1016/j.brat.2024.104541","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2024.104541","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study analyzed effects of savoring on unstudied positive mindset targets of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) treatment (ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT05040061). 85 students with GAD were randomly assigned to one of two ecological momentary interventions (EMIs) on smartphone for seven days. The SkillJoy EMI promoted practices for savoring positive emotions. An active control EMI mirrored SkillJoy, yet did not include savoring or positive emotion. Optimism, worry, kill-joy thinking (lessening positive emotion with cognition), and prioritization of positive emotion activities and goals were assessed at pre-trial, eighth-day, post-trial, and 30<sup>th</sup>-day follow-up. Savoring was assessed pre-trial and fifth-day mid-trial. Longitudinal linear mixed models and simple slope analyses examined change between and within conditions. Bias-corrected bootstrapping path analysis examined mediation of worry change by increased savoring. SkillJoy led to significantly greater increases in both optimism and prioritizing positivity than the control from pre-trial to post-trial and pre-trial to follow-up. Both interventions significantly reduced kill-joy thinking at both timepoints with Skilljoy leading to marginally greater change at post-trial. Pre- to mid-trial increases in savoring mediated the relationships between treatment condition and reductions in worry at both post-trial and follow-up.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48457,"journal":{"name":"Behaviour Research and Therapy","volume":"177 ","pages":"Article 104541"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140618515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Recalling and anticipating positive events to improve the positive affect and mental health of adolescents: A cluster randomized controlled trial in secondary schools 回忆和预测积极事件以改善青少年的积极情感和心理健康：中学分组随机对照试验

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Behaviour Research and Therapy Pub Date : 2024-04-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2024.104543

L. Bogaert , D. Hallford , E. Loyen , A. D'Argembeau , F. Raes

{"title":"Recalling and anticipating positive events to improve the positive affect and mental health of adolescents: A cluster randomized controlled trial in secondary schools","authors":"L. Bogaert , D. Hallford , E. Loyen , A. D'Argembeau , F. Raes","doi":"10.1016/j.brat.2024.104543","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.brat.2024.104543","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This cluster randomized controlled trial examined the effectiveness of Positive Events Training (PET), a combined group training aimed at simultaneously improving positive autobiographical memory (AM) and episodic future thinking (EFT) among adolescents (12–16 years). Delivered as a universal school-based program, PET was compared with an active (creative writing) control group (CREAT). Effects on resilience, wellbeing, positive emotions, emotional response styles towards positive emotions (savoring, dampening), anhedonia, depressive symptoms, and multiple AM and EFT indices were examined. Adolescents (<em>N</em> <sub>PET</sub> = 95, <em>N</em> <sub>CREAT</sub> = 93) completed self-report scales at baseline, post-training and two-month follow-up. Multilevel models revealed that PET led to significant improvements in certain AM and EFT skills. Moreover, a decrease in anhedonia was observed at post-training. However, this effect did not withstand correction for multiple testing. Absence of changes in the other outcomes should be interpreted within the context of the universal school-based approach and the potential limited scope for detectable changes. Exploratory analyses suggest the importance of further investigating PET's potential in addressing positive affect dysregulations in indicated samples, and exploring perceived likelihood of generated future events and dampening as potential underlying mechanisms. Study limitations and future directions to maximize the demonstrated potential of PET are discussed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48457,"journal":{"name":"Behaviour Research and Therapy","volume":"179 ","pages":"Article 104543"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0005796724000706/pdfft?md5=c2a4ac6f48037953706c275808e8442b&pid=1-s2.0-S0005796724000706-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140781649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Is informal practice associated with outcomes in loving-kindness and compassion training? Evidence from pre-post and daily diary assessments 非正式练习与仁爱和同情训练的结果有关吗？事后和每日日记评估的证据

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Behaviour Research and Therapy Pub Date : 2024-04-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2024.104537

Qiang Xie , Kevin M. Riordan , Scott A. Baldwin , Otto Simonsson , Matthew J. Hirshberg , Cortland J. Dahl , Inbal Nahum-Shani , Richard J. Davidson , Simon B. Goldberg

{"title":"Is informal practice associated with outcomes in loving-kindness and compassion training? Evidence from pre-post and daily diary assessments","authors":"Qiang Xie , Kevin M. Riordan , Scott A. Baldwin , Otto Simonsson , Matthew J. Hirshberg , Cortland J. Dahl , Inbal Nahum-Shani , Richard J. Davidson , Simon B. Goldberg","doi":"10.1016/j.brat.2024.104537","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2024.104537","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We investigated whether informal meditation practice (i.e., self-reported application of meditative techniques outside a period of formal meditation) was associated with outcomes in smartphone-based loving-kindness and compassion training. Meditation-naïve participants (<em>n</em> = 351) with clinically elevated symptoms completed measures of psychological distress, loneliness, empathy, and prosociality at baseline and following a two-week intervention. Informal practice, psychological distress, and loneliness were also assessed daily. Steeper increases in informal practice had small associations with pre-post improvements in distress (<em>r</em> = −.18, <em>p</em> = .008) and loneliness (<em>r</em> = −.19, <em>p</em> = .009) but not empathy or prosociality. Using a currently recommended approach for establishing cross-lagged effects in longitudinal data (latent curve model with structured residuals), higher current-day informal practice was associated with decreased next-day distress with a very small effect size (<em>β</em>s = −.06 to −.04, <em>p</em> = .018) but not decreased next-day loneliness. No cross-lagged associations emerged from distress or loneliness to informal practice. Findings suggest that further investigation into a potential causal role of informal practice is warranted. Future studies experimentally manipulating informal practice are needed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48457,"journal":{"name":"Behaviour Research and Therapy","volume":"177 ","pages":"Article 104537"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140543453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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