Thought suppression and psychopathology

Purdon, Christine

doi:10.1016/s0005-7967(98)00200-9

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“…Although expressive suppression may differ from direct suppression of emotional experiencing or thoughts, physiological responding to stress may be intensified or prolonged by expressive suppression (e.g., Gross, 1998b), and exposure to traumatic events, particularly interpersonal trauma, is thought to reduce emotion regulation capacity, leading to difficulties in emotion regulation not entirely captured by the diagnosis of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD; Frewen & Lanius, 2006;Pelcovitz, van der Kolk, Roth, Mandel, Kaplan, & Resick, 1997;van der Kolk, Roth, Pelcovitz, Sunday, & Spinazzola, 2005). Furthermore, in stress-related reactions such as PTSD, it has been suggested that suppression of thoughts or emotions may potentially contribute to the maintenance of posttraumatic reactions, leading to chronic PTSD (e.g., Foa & Riggs, 1993;Purdon, 1999;Roemer, Litz, Orsillo, & Wagner, 2001;Shipherd & Beck, 1999). Indeed, initial work in this area by Roemer and colleagues (2001) suggests that individuals with PTSD report suppressing emotions more frequently and more intensely than those without PTSD.…”

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Are expressive suppression and cognitive reappraisal associated with stress-related symptoms?

Moore

Zoellner

Mollenholt

2008

Behaviour Research and Therapy

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Emotion dysregulation is thought to be critical to the development of negative psychological outcomes. Gross (1998b) conceptualized the timing of regulation strategies as key to this relationship, with response-focused strategies, such as expressive suppression, as less effective and more detrimental compared to antecedent-focused ones, such as cognitive reappraisal. In the current study, we examined the relationship between reappraisal and expressive suppression and measures of psychopathology, particularly for stress-related reactions, in both undergraduate and trauma-exposed community samples of women. Generally, expressive suppression was associated with higher, and reappraisal with lower, self-reported stress-related symptoms. In particular, expressive suppression was associated with PTSD, anxiety, and depression symptoms in the trauma-exposed community sample, with rumination partially mediating this association. Finally, based on factor analysis, expressive suppression and cognitive reappraisal appear to be independent constructs. Overall, expressive suppression, much more so than cognitive reappraisal, may play an important role in the experience of stress-related symptoms. Further, given their independence, there are potentially relevant clinical implications, as interventions that shift one of these emotion regulation strategies may not lead to changes in the other.

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Are expressive suppression and cognitive reappraisal associated with stress-related symptoms?

Moore

Zoellner

Mollenholt

2008

Behaviour Research and Therapy

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304

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“…In addition, their results support the findings of recent studies that control strategies such as avoidance, substitution, elimination, etc., of uncomfortable private events (i.e., thoughts, emotions, bodily sensations, etc.) may actually increase the intensity, frequency, duration, or even accessibility of the unwanted sensations, thereby generating further problems and suffering (e.g., Campbell, Barlow, Brown, & Hoffman, 2006;Cioffi & Holloway, 1993;Gross & Levenson, 1997;Gutiérrez, Luciano, Rodríguez, & Fink, 2004;Webner & Erber, 1992; see reviews by Purdon, 1999;Rassin, Merckelbach, & Muris, 2000; and a meta-analysis by Abramowitz, Tolin & Street, 2001).…”

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Reducing Teachers' Psychological Distress through a Mindfulness Training Program

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Teachers constitute one of the professional collectives most affected by psychological problems. The purpose of this quasi-experimental study is to examine the efficacy of a mindfulness training programme to reduce psychological distress in a group of teachers. The sample comprised 68 teachers of Secondary School Education, from various public schools; half of them formed the experimental group, and the another half the control group. The levels of psychological distress were measured, in both groups, by the Symptom Checklist-90-R (SCL-90-R) before and after the application of the programme. Statistical analysis shows the significant reduction of three general measures of psychological distress (Global Severity Index, Positive Symptom Distress Index, and Positive Symptom Total), as well in all its dimensions (somatization, obsessive-compulsive, interpersonal sensibility, depression, anxiety, hostility, phobic anxiety, paranoid ideation, and psychoticism), in the experimental group compared with the control group. Follow-up measures show that these results were maintained for four months after termination of the intervention in the experimental group.

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“…En determinadas circunstancias, la supresión ha mostrado ser efectiva, como por ejemplo después de situaciones traumáticas, ya que en ese momento la supresión permite reducir el malestar y las intrusiones posteriores. Si bien existen diferentes tipos de supresión, la supresión del pensamiento es la más relacionada con la presencia de psicopatología, particularmente los trastornos emocionales (Purdon, 1999). Se ha observado que la supresión emocional predice mejor resultado en psicoterapia que la reevaluación; sin embargo, la evidencia que aporta el estudio es contradictoria (Scherer, Boecker, Pawelzik, Gauggel y Forkmann, 2015).…”

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La regulación emocional en los trastornos emocionales, una piedra nodal para los abordajes transdiagnósticos: una revisión de la literatura

Fernández‐Álvarez¹,

García²,

Robles³

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Thought suppression and psychopathology

Cited by 380 publications

References 68 publications

Are expressive suppression and cognitive reappraisal associated with stress-related symptoms?

Are expressive suppression and cognitive reappraisal associated with stress-related symptoms?

Reducing Teachers' Psychological Distress through a Mindfulness Training Program

La regulación emocional en los trastornos emocionales, una piedra nodal para los abordajes transdiagnósticos: una revisión de la literatura

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