Comparing thought suppression and mindfulness as coping techniques for spider fear

Hooper, Nic; Davies, Nathan; Davies, Laura; McHugh, Louise

doi:10.1016/j.concog.2011.05.013

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“…Following Hooper et al (2011), participants were instructed to not think about what was bothering them. This set of instructions was repeated for 13 minutes to match the length of the mindfulness induction

“When you’re ready, you can take a moment and then try not to think about anything that is bothering you, stressing you, or upsetting you in your life… When an unwanted thought comes to mind, simply try to remove it… Concentrate on getting rid of unwanted thoughts… Don’t think about what is bothering you, stressing you, or upsetting you in your life… But each time an unwanted thought enters your mind continue to remove it… When the unwanted thought enters your mind, try to put it away from your conscious awareness… You can think about whatever comes to mind except thoughts about what is bothering you, stressing you, or upsetting you in your life… Watch out for upsetting thoughts, removing them each time they appear…”

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“…We had two primary hypotheses. First, we hypothesized that brief mindfulness training would lead to greater increases in reappraisal than the practice of suppression - an active, response-focused emotion regulation strategy (Gross, 2002), or mind wandering - a passive, unregulated mental state; these two psychological processes are held to be antithetical to mindfulness and often used as control conditions in experimental mindfulness research (Cahn & Polich, 2009; Farb, Segal, & Anderson, 2013; Hooper, Davies, Davies, & McHugh, 2011; Mrazek, Smallwood, & Schooler, 2012). Second, because state mindfulness is presumed to facilitate cognitive flexibility and transform maladaptive cognitive habits, we hypothesized that the state of mindfulness achieved during active mindfulness meditation would be positively and prospectively associated with increases in reappraisal, and would mediate the effect of mindfulness training on reappraisal.…”

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State Mindfulness During Meditation Predicts Enhanced Cognitive Reappraisal

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Putatively, mindfulness meditation involves generation of a state of “nonappraisal”, yet, little is known about how mindfulness may influence appraisal processes. We investigated whether the state and practice of mindfulness could enhance cognitive reappraisal. Participants (N = 44; M age = 24.44, SD = 4.00, range 19 – 38, 82.2% female) were randomized to either 1) mindfulness, 2) suppression, or 3) mind-wandering induction training conditions. Cognitive reappraisal was assessed with the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ) prior to experimental induction, and state mindfulness was assessed immediately following induction using the Toronto Mindfulness Scale (TMS). Participants practiced their assigned strategy for one week and then were reassessed with the ERQ reappraisal subscale. Participants receiving mindfulness training reported significantly higher levels of state mindfulness than participants in the thought suppression and mind wandering conditions. Although brief mindfulness training did not lead to significantly greater increases in reappraisal than the other two conditions, state mindfulness during mindfulness meditation was prospectively associated with increases in reappraisal. Path analysis revealed that the indirect effect between mindfulness training and reappraisal was significant through state mindfulness. Degree of state mindfulness achieved during the act of mindfulness meditation significantly predicted increases in reappraisal over time, suggesting that mindfulness may promote emotion regulation by enhancing cognitive reappraisal.

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“…Moreover, these psychotherapeutic interventions show promise for the treatment of anxiety disorders. In this regard, randomized, controlled trials in anxious adults have shown statistically significant improvement in symptoms of GAD [45-47], social anxiety [48-50], specific phobia [51], and panic disorder [45]. Mindfulness-based interventions have also shown effective in studies looking at a heterogeneous group of anxiety disorders [52,53].…”

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Assessment and Treatment of Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents

Wehry

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Hennelly

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Recent advances in the developmental epidemiology, neurobiology and treatment of pediatric anxiety disorders have increased our understanding of these conditions and herald improved outcomes for affected children and adolescents. This article reviews the current epidemiology, longitudinal trajectory, and neurobiology of anxiety disorders in youth. Additionally, we summarize the current evidence for both psychotherapeutic and psychopharmacologic treatments of fear-based anxiety disorders (e.g., generalized, social and separation anxiety disorders) in children and adolescents. Current data suggest that these disorders begin in childhood and adolescence, exhibit homotypic continuity and increase the risk of secondary anxiety and mood disorders. Psychopharmacologic trials involving selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and selective serotonin norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SSNRIs) are effective in pediatric patients with anxiety disorders and have generally demonstrated moderate effect sizes. Additionally, current data support cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) are efficacious in the treatment of these conditions in youth and that combination of CBT + an SSRI may be associated with greater improvement than would be expected with either treatment as monotherapy.

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“…These studies often use 84 single-session designs to maintain experimental control over extraneous variables (Levin et 85 al., 2012). For example, to test the effects of mindfulness on anxiety management, one study 86 used a 9-minute audio file to induce either mindfulness, thought suppression, or unfocused 87 attention (Hooper, Davies, Davies, & McHugh, 2011). The mindfulness intervention led to 88 lower anxiety, and lower behavioural avoidance of spiders, compared with thought 89 suppression.…”

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Can a Brief Mindfulness Intervention Improve Sports Performance? A Double-Blind Randomised Controlled Trial

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Ciarrochi²,

Conigrave³

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1Objectives. Using an experimental design, we tested whether a short mindfulness 2 intervention led to improvements in state mindfulness and golf putting performance. 3Design. This study was a registered, double-blind, randomised crossover design. 4Method. Experienced golfers (N = 116) were randomly allocated to receive either a 5 mindfulness or attention-control intervention before competing in a putting competition. 6They then received the opposite intervention before another round of competition. At 7 baseline and in each round of competition, we assessed state mindfulness, competitive 8 anxiety, swing mechanics, and performance. 9

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Comparing thought suppression and mindfulness as coping techniques for spider fear

Cited by 24 publications

References 19 publications

State Mindfulness During Meditation Predicts Enhanced Cognitive Reappraisal

State Mindfulness During Meditation Predicts Enhanced Cognitive Reappraisal

Assessment and Treatment of Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents

Can a Brief Mindfulness Intervention Improve Sports Performance? A Double-Blind Randomised Controlled Trial

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