Better control with less effort: The advantage of using focused-breathing strategy over focused-distraction strategy on thought suppression

Ju, Yu-Jeng; Lien, Yunn-Wen

doi:10.1016/j.concog.2015.12.002

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“…An alternative possibility regarding the positive correlations between working memory and intrusions relates to the particular strategy participants use to suppress the thought. Thus, studies have examined the effect of different suppression strategies on intrusions during suppression and working memory capacity (Ju & Lien, 2016). The main finding was that participants using a focused breathing strategy during thought suppression reported significantly fewer intrusions than a group using a focused distracter condition…”

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confidence: 99%

Ageing and thought suppression performance: Its relationship with working memory capacity, habitual thought suppression and mindfulness

Erskine

Georgiou

Joshi

et al. 2017

Consciousness and Cognition

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A study investigated how the ability to suppress thoughts in the laboratory was affected by type of thought suppressed (positive, negative, neutral), participants' age and working memory capacity (WMC). Linked variables (Use of thought suppression, social desirability, and mindfulness) were measured to assess whether they modified susceptibility to thought intrusion. Younger, middle aged and older adults suppressed three different valenced thoughts in a counterbalanced order for 5-min per thought. Participants then completed a WMC task and questionnaire measures of the linked variables. Valence had no effect on intrusions. WMC was positively related to intrusions; higher WMC corresponded to greater intrusions. Age was negatively related to intrusions; with increasing age intrusions decreased. Hierarchical regression showed only age and backward digit span (WMC) significantly predicted intrusions. The relationship between WMC and intrusions was not moderated by age. WMC and age both independently predict level of intrusion, and no synergistic effect was found.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ageing and thought suppression performance: Its relationship with working memory capacity, habitual thought suppression and mindfulness

Erskine

Georgiou

Joshi

et al. 2017

Consciousness and Cognition

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“…Further, the practice entails the development of a non-judgmental attitude toward one's own experiences (Kabat-Zinn, 2006;Malinowski, 2008). Based on this operational definition we can argue that what makes mindfulness a particular attentional strategy is the interaction between the object of attention and the above mentioned set of mindfulness attitudes namely, curiosity, experiential openness, acceptance, and non-judgment (Dunn, Hartigan, & Mikulas, 1999;Ju & Lien, 2016;Teper & Inzlicht, 2014).…”

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Assessing the impact of mindfulness attitudes on attentional quality through focused breath induction

Franca

Tanaka²,

Cagy

et al. 2019

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Mindfulness attitudes, as gentleness, openness, acceptance, curiosity and being nonjudgmental have been related to improvement in cognitive and emotional functions, but few studies have focused on its specific contribution. The present study investigated the effect of the mindfulness attitudes on top-down attentional control abilities. Twenty one healthy participants were submitted to two conditions: a Mindfulness induction session where participants practiced focusing on the sensory sensations of breathing while encouraged to incorporate the five mindfulness attitudes and an attentional control session in which participants were repeatedly instructed to merely attend to the breath, without any mindfulness attitude component. Before and after each condition, participants performed two blocks of the oddball task while EEG was recorded.Contrary to our expectations, attentional control assessed through amplitude and latency of the P3b ERP component and oddball task accuracy did not show any changes in any of the conditions. These results suggest that a low dose of mindfulness training in naive individuals, through a focused breath induction, is not enough to improve the allocation of attentional resources towards task-relevant stimuli.

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“…Particularly, focused breathing a technique based on mindfulness of breath instructions has shown to be an effective strategy for emotion regulation (Arch and Craske, 2006) and thought suppression (Ju and Lien, 2016) in individuals naïve to mindfulness practices.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…With this procedure we expected to observe enhanced forgetting in the group using a mindfulness-based strategy (Ju and Lien, 2016). Moreover, due to the non-judgmental nature of the strategy in which pleasant and unpleasant experiences or thoughts are approached in the same way and without distinction (Kabat-Zinn and Hanh, 2009) we did not expect to observe differences associated to the emotional valence in the set of words to be forgotten.…”

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Suppress to Forget: The Effect of a Mindfulness-Based Strategy during an Emotional Item-Directed Forgetting Paradigm

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Forgetting is a common phenomenon in everyday life. Although it often has negative connotations, forgetting is an important adaptive mechanism to avoid loading the memory storage with irrelevant information. A very important aspect of forgetting is its interaction with emotion. Affective events are often granted special and priority treatment over neutral ones with regards to memory storage. As a consequence, emotional information is more resistant to extinction than neutral information. It has been suggested that intentional forgetting serves as a mechanism to cope with unwanted or disruptive emotional memories and the main goal of this study was to assess forgetting of emotional auditory material using the item-method directed forgetting (DF) paradigm using a forgetting strategy based on mindfulness as a means to enhance DF. Contrary to our prediction, the mindfulness-based strategy not only did not improve DF but reduced it for neutral material. These results suggest that an interaction between processes such as response inhibition and attention is required for intentional forgetting to succeed.

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Better control with less effort: The advantage of using focused-breathing strategy over focused-distraction strategy on thought suppression

Cited by 21 publications

References 31 publications

Ageing and thought suppression performance: Its relationship with working memory capacity, habitual thought suppression and mindfulness

Ageing and thought suppression performance: Its relationship with working memory capacity, habitual thought suppression and mindfulness

Assessing the impact of mindfulness attitudes on attentional quality through focused breath induction

Suppress to Forget: The Effect of a Mindfulness-Based Strategy during an Emotional Item-Directed Forgetting Paradigm

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