Psychometric qualities of the Thought Suppression Inventory-Revised in different age groups

Schie, Kevin van; Wanmaker, Sabine; Yocarini, Iris; Bouwmeester, Samantha

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2015.11.060

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“…Most studies (10/17) examined undergraduate students and five studies investigated exclusively healthy adults (Gootjes et al, 2011; Gootjes and Rassin, 2014; Küpper et al, 2014; Rodríguez-Martín et al, 2015; van Schie et al, 2016). Three studies reported data of patient populations (Catarino et al, 2015; Piguet et al, 2016;Lu et al, 2017—Study 3).…”

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“…A considerable proportion of studies ( n = 8; 47%) presented cross-sectional/correlational results, 7 papers reported results from experimental tasks, and 4 studies were psychometric reports (one of them, van Schie et al, 2016, was focused on the psychometric properties of the TSI but included the TCAQ for comparison).…”

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“…Due to the heterogeneity of the included studies, the methodological quality of each single study was not evaluated. The aim of several of the included studies was not the direct evaluation of one or more measurement properties of the TCAQ, but they provided indirect evidence of its validity [for instance, van Schie et al, 2016 used the TCAQ in a validation study of the Thought Suppression Invent ory—Revised .…”

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“…Although Wismeijer (2012) confirmed the original 3-factor model proposed by Rassin (2003), he suggested that eight items should at least be rephrased or even removed after using CFA and Mokken scale analysis. More recently, van Schie et al (2016) developed the TSI-R. These authors rephrased or replaced the problematic items of the TSI and some new items were added.…”

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Fifteen Years Controlling Unwanted Thoughts: A Systematic Review of the Thought Control Ability Questionnaire (TCAQ)

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Thought control ability is a vulnerability factor implicated in the etiology and maintenance of emotional disorders. This manuscript aims to systematically review the use and psychometric performance of the Thought Control Ability Questionnaire (TCAQ), designed to assess people's ability to control unwanted thoughts. Three electronic databases were searched for papers administering the TCAQ published in indexed peer-reviewed journals. Data (participants characteristics, country, study design, etc.) were extracted from the results for qualitative synthesis. The TCAQ's content validity, dimensionality, internal consistency, test-retest reliability, convergent/divergent validity, floor/ceiling effects, and interpretability were summarized. Two reviewers independently screened articles and assessed quality taking COSMIN criteria into account. Finally, the review included 17 papers. The TCAQ has been administered to healthy individuals, students, and adult patients, in six languages from nine countries. We found that the TCAQ, and its shorter versions, demonstrate robust reliability and adequate content validity. Of interest is the TCAQ's capacity to predict performance in diverse experimental tasks focused on thought control. The TCAQ unidimensionality has been supported in exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses. Regarding construct validity, the TCAQ is significantly related to a wide range of psychopathological measures of anxiety, worry, depression, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, etc. However, as only a few of the included studies had a longitudinal design, we are unable to draw firm conclusions about the measure's temporal stability. Moreover, psychometric aspects such as factorial invariance across different samples have not been analyzed. Despite these limitations, based on available psychometric evidence we can recommend using the TCAQ for measuring perceived control of unwanted thoughts.

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“…The Effective Suppression subscale of the TSI-R [ 59 ] measures the extent to which participants experience success in suppressing their unwanted thoughts (e.g., "I am able to suppress unpleasant thoughts"). We chose this scale because it effectively dissociates experienced success in thought control from other related constructs, such as the experienced frequency of unwanted thoughts [ 1 ], the need to engage in thought control, or the question of how people control their thoughts [ 3 ].…”

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If you don’t let it in, you don’t have to get it out: Thought preemption as a method to control unwanted thoughts

Fradkin

Eldar²

2022

PLoS Comput Biol

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To attain goals, people must proactively prevent interferences and react to interferences once they occur. Whereas most research focuses on how people deal with external interferences, here we investigate the use of proactive and reactive control in dealing with unwanted thoughts. To examine this question, we asked people to generate an association to each of several repeating cue words, while forbidding the repetition of associations. Reactively rejecting and replacing unwanted repeated associations after they occur entails slower response times. Conversely, proactive control entails constricting the search space and thus faster response times. To gain further insight into different potential proactive thought control mechanisms, we augmented the analysis of raw response times with a novel, hypothesis-based, tractable computational model describing how people serially sample associations. Our results indicate that people primarily react to unwanted thoughts after they occur. Yet, we found evidence for two latent proactive control mechanisms: one that allows people to mitigate the episodic strengthening of repeated thoughts, and another that helps avoid looping in a repetitive thought. Exploratory analysis showed a relationship between model parameters and self-reported individual differences in the control over unwanted thoughts in daily life. The findings indicate the novel task and model can advance our understanding of how people can and cannot control their thoughts and memories, and benefit future research on the mechanisms responsible for unwanted thought in different psychiatric conditions. Finally, we discuss implications concerning the involvement of associative thinking and various control processes in semantic fluency, decision-making and creativity.

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Thought Suppression

Muris¹

2020

Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences

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Psychometric qualities of the Thought Suppression Inventory-Revised in different age groups

Cited by 10 publications

References 49 publications

Fifteen Years Controlling Unwanted Thoughts: A Systematic Review of the Thought Control Ability Questionnaire (TCAQ)

Fifteen Years Controlling Unwanted Thoughts: A Systematic Review of the Thought Control Ability Questionnaire (TCAQ)

If you don’t let it in, you don’t have to get it out: Thought preemption as a method to control unwanted thoughts

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