Mental imagery during daily life: Psychometric evaluation of the Spontaneous Use of Imagery Scale (SUIS)

Nelis, Sabine; Holmes, Emily A.; Griffith, James W.; Raes, Filip

doi:10.5334/pb.ag

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“…The SUIS has good internal consistency of 0.76 (Nelis et al, 2014), and was comparable in the current study at 0.84. recognition scenarios task was used to assess interpretation biases pre-and post-training. Pretraining, participants were presented with ten ambiguous scenario descriptions that were paired with a title.…”

Section: Spontaneous Use Of Imagery Scale (Suis)supporting

confidence: 51%

Imagery versus verbal interpretive cognitive bias modification for compulsive checking

Black

Grisham

2016

Behaviour Research and Therapy

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Section: Spontaneous Use Of Imagery Scale (Suis)supporting

confidence: 51%

Imagery versus verbal interpretive cognitive bias modification for compulsive checking

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Grisham

2016

Behaviour Research and Therapy

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“…The spontaneous use of mental imagery in everyday life was assessed via the Spontaneous Use of Imagery Scale (SUIS) and two Visual Analogue Scales (VASs) . The SUIS is a 12‐item self‐report scale measuring the use of non‐emotional mental imagery in daily life (e.g., If I am looking for new furniture in a store, I always visualize what the furniture would look like in particular places in my home .).…”

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“…Previous studies have investigated only selected stages of imagery‐related processing, with evidence of deficits in cognitive tasks of imagery generation and manipulation in depressed individuals and imagery generation in anxious individuals . The subjective domains relate to spontaneous imagery use, the presence of imagery‐related interpretation biases and emotional mental imagery and the phenomenological characteristics of mental imagery in different affective states …”

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An investigation of mental imagery in bipolar disorder: Exploring “the mind's eye”

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ObjectivesMental imagery abnormalities occur across psychopathologies and are hypothesized to drive emotional difficulties in bipolar disorder (BD). A comprehensive assessment of mental imagery in BD is lacking. We aimed to test whether (i) mental imagery abnormalities (abnormalities in cognitive stages and subjective domains) occur in BD relative to non‐clinical controls; and (ii) to determine the specificity of any abnormalities in BD relative to depression and anxiety disorders.MethodsParticipants included 54 subjects in the BD group (depressed/euthymic; n=27 in each subgroup), subjects with unipolar depression (n=26), subjects with anxiety disorders (n=25), and non‐clinical controls (n=27) matched for age, gender, ethnicity, education, and premorbid IQ. Experimental tasks assessed cognitive (non‐emotional) measures of mental imagery (cognitive stages). Questionnaires, experimental tasks, and a phenomenological interview assessed subjective domains including spontaneous imagery use, interpretation bias, and emotional mental imagery.Results(i) Compared to non‐clinical controls, the BD combined group reported a greater impact of intrusive prospective imagery in daily life, more vivid and “real” negative images (prospective imagery task), and higher self‐involvement (picture‐word task). The BD combined group showed no clear abnormalities in cognitive stages of mental imagery. (ii) When depressed individuals with BD were compared to the depressed or anxious clinical control groups, no significant differences remained—across all groups, imagery differences were associated with affective lability and anxiety.ConclusionsCompared to non‐clinical controls, BD is characterized by abnormalities in aspects of emotional mental imagery within the context of otherwise normal cognitive aspects. When matched for depression and anxiety, these abnormalities are not specific to BD—rather, imagery may reflect a transdiagnostic marker of emotional psychopathology.

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“…While the VVIQ is a subjective measure, Cui et al (2007) showed that it correlated with individual differences in activity in primary visual cortex during mental imagery tasks (r = .73), illustrating its construct validity. The measure has been previously used in online studies with good psychometric properties (e.g., Nelis, Holmes, Griffith, & Raes, 2014), suggesting there are no reliability concerns in administering the measure online. Cronbach's alpha was .89 in this study.…”

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Vividness of positive mental imagery predicts positive emotional response to visually presented Project Soothe pictures

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Schwannauer

McLaughlin

et al. 2017

British J of Psychology

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Lang's bioinformational theory of mental imagery proposes that mental imagery and external stimuli engage emotional information-processing systems in similar ways. However, the positive and negative systems are thought to be distinct, so this similarity is likely to show a valence-specific effect. Therefore, we hypothesized that an individual's ability to construct vivid positive, but not negative, mental imagery would predict positive emotional responding to positive visual stimuli, independently of depressive symptoms. Our stimuli were pictures collected through Project Soothe for possible use in psychotherapy (www.projectsoothe.com); as these pictures were intended to induce soothing emotion, we hypothesized that theoretically linked variables Self-compassion and Self-criticism would also predict positive responding to the stimuli. A total of 214 participants completed an online study including validated questionnaire measures, mental imagery tasks, and a picture-rating exercise. Only Positive Imagery Vividness and Self-compassion were significant predictors of positive responding to the soothing pictures, even controlling for depressive symptoms, and Negative and General Imagery Vividness. These findings support Lang's theory and provide evidence for individual differences in a positive processing tendency shared across mental imagery-based and perceptual representations. As this relationship is distinct from depressive symptoms, future imagery-based psychotherapies might aim to influence this positive processing tendency.

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Mental imagery during daily life: Psychometric evaluation of the Spontaneous Use of Imagery Scale (SUIS)

Cited by 79 publications

References 38 publications

Imagery versus verbal interpretive cognitive bias modification for compulsive checking

Imagery versus verbal interpretive cognitive bias modification for compulsive checking

An investigation of mental imagery in bipolar disorder: Exploring “the mind's eye”

Vividness of positive mental imagery predicts positive emotional response to visually presented Project Soothe pictures

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