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Harvey, Allison G.

doi:10.1023/a:1026322310019

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“…Individuals high in thought suppression and intrusions also had poorer sleep quality. For both analyses, the effects were large, bolstering previous findings that thought suppression is implicated in insomnia (Harvey, 2001, 2003). Coupled with the dream rebound effect, these findings clearly illustrate that both sleep quality and dream content are negatively affected by the tendency to try to suppress thoughts during wakefulness.…”

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“…In addition to investigating the effect of trait thought suppression on dream content, another aim was to investigate whether it would also have negative effects on sleep quality and emotional states, as both are related to dream content. Previous research found that sleep issues such as insomnia are related to the attempt to suppress thoughts during wakefulness (Harvey, 2001(Harvey, , 2003. Likewise, there is a large body of literature that associated has found associations between thought suppression and various mental health issues, such as generalized anxiety disorder (Becker, Rinck, Roth, & Margraf, 1998).…”

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High thought suppressors dream more of their negative waking-life experiences than low thought suppressors.

Malinowski

2017

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Research has found that high thought suppressors dream more of their emotional waking-life experiences than low suppressors, in line with the dream rebound effect. The present study replicated and extended this finding. Participants (N=62) completed the White Bear Suppression Inventory (WBSI), the Pittsberg Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale (DASS21), and answered questions about their Most Recent Dream. High thought suppressors dreamt more of their negative (but not positive) emotional experiences from waking-life than low thought suppressors. They also had poorer sleep quality, and higher levels of depression, anxiety, and stress. The results indicate a negative relationship between trait thought suppression and well-being. Identifying problematic suppressed thoughts in dream content may assist in generating insights into them and/or have therapeutic benefit.

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High thought suppressors dream more of their negative waking-life experiences than low thought suppressors.

Malinowski

2017

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“…Research in this field has revealed that in order to avoid unwanted intrusive thoughts at bedtime, poor sleepers adopt counterproductive strategies of thought control more often than good sleepers do (e.g., Harvey, 2005;Ree, Harvey, Blake, Tang, & Shawe-Taylor, 2005). Among these strategies, thought suppression and worry have been shown to be most predictive of poor sleep, presumably because they paradoxically perpetuate or exacerbate cognitive arousal instead of helping people to unwind (e.g., Ellis & Cropley, 2002;Harvey, 2003;Ree et al, 2005;.…”

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Nocturnal Regrets and Insomnia in Elderly People

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Renaud

Linden

2011

Int J Aging Hum Dev

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Despite their importance for general health, emotion-related factors have rarely been considered in the etiology of late-life insomnia. This study explored the relations between impulsivity, regret experiences, use of different thought-control strategies, and insomnia severity in a sample of older adults whose age ranged from 51 to 98 years. Results revealed that: (a) regret frequency varies across the hours of the day, with a peak in the evening when people are trying to fall asleep; (b) individuals scoring high on impulsive urgency are particularly prone to experience nocturnal regrets; (c) nocturnal regrets are associated with insomnia severity, independently of other well-known risk factors such as depression, sleep-interfering medical conditions, and medications; and (d) the thought-control strategies of self-attacking, thought suppression, and worry are positively associated with the frequency of nocturnal regrets and insomnia severity. These findings indicate that dysfunctional regret regulation plays an important role for sleep disturbances in elderly people.

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“…Dysfunctional sleep-related cognitive processes may interfere with arousal regulation, which, in turn, contributes to the onset and perpetuation of sleep disturbances (Harvey, 2002;Morin & Benca, 2012). Literature has provided evidence to support the idea that a more general inappropriate metacognitive activity regarding sleep could be among the factors behind sleep difficulties as insomnia (Ballesio et al, 2019;Harvey, 2003;Ong et al, 2012;Palagini et al, 2014;Sella et al, 2019;Waine et al, 2009).…”

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The relationships among metacognitive functions, sleep‐related thought‐control strategies and sleep quality: A mediation analysis

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et al. 2023

Journal of Sleep Research

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SummaryIn the context of sleep disturbances, increasing evidence suggests a critical role of sleep‐related dysfunctional metacognitive activity, including metacognitive control of intrusive thoughts in the pre‐sleep period. Although the relationship between sleep‐related thought‐control strategies and poor sleep quality is well recognized, the possible contribution of general metacognitive functioning within this relation is still unclear. In this study, we performed a mediation analysis to examine the role of thought‐control strategies on the relationship between metacognitive abilities and sleep quality in individuals with different self‐reported sleep characteristics. Two‐hundred and forty‐five individuals participated in the study. Participants completed the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, the Thought Control Questionnaire Insomnia‐Revised, and the Metacognition Self‐Assessment Scale to evaluate sleep quality, thought‐control strategies and metacognitive functions, respectively. The results showed that worry strategy in the pre‐sleep period mediates the relationship between metacognitive functions and sleep quality. Particularly, the ability to understand one's mental states and mastery functions could be the two metacognitive domains primarily involved in the dysfunctional metacognitive thought‐control activity responsible for reduced sleep quality. The observed effect suggests that inadequate metacognitive functioning is associated with poor sleep quality in healthy subjects via the mediation of dysfunctional worry strategy. These findings suggest the potential relevance of clinical interventions to enhance specific metacognitive abilities, with the aim to promote more functional strategies for managing cognitive and emotional processes during the pre‐sleep period.

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Cited by 67 publications

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High thought suppressors dream more of their negative waking-life experiences than low thought suppressors.

High thought suppressors dream more of their negative waking-life experiences than low thought suppressors.

Nocturnal Regrets and Insomnia in Elderly People

The relationships among metacognitive functions, sleep‐related thought‐control strategies and sleep quality: A mediation analysis

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