Exploring Self-Talk in Response to Disruptive and Emotional Events

Brinthaupt, Thomas M.; Kittani, Saman R.

doi:10.1080/10720537.2023.2194691

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“…Self-talk also facilitates learning, improves performance and self-confidence, and reduces anxiety (33,34). A mixed methods study on individuals with cognitive disruption, anxiety, and sadness also showed that participants in anxiety and sadness conditions had greater ST than participants in control conditions (35). Some individuals use negative self-evaluation and repeat disappointing expressions, thereby increasing their anxiety.…”

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The Effects of Positive Self-talk on Anxiety and Grief Among Women with Spontaneous Abortion: A Quasi-Experimental Study

Rezaee,

Afhami,

Navvabi-Rigi

2024

Shiraz E-Med J

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Background: Spontaneous abortion (SA) is a common pregnancy complication with challenging prediction and prevention for healthcare providers. It can lead to stress, anxiety, depression, and grief for parents. Self-talk (ST) is a communication skill with a significant role in the relationship of events and emotions and can facilitate the management of most emotional and behavioral disorders. However, there is limited information about its effects on women with SA. Objectives: The aim of this study was to assess the effects of positive ST on anxiety and grief among women with SA. Methods: This quasi-experimental study was conducted in 2021 using a two-group pre-test-post-test design. Eighty women with SA were randomly selected from a teaching hospital in Zahedan, Iran, and were alternately allocated to an intervention group and a control group on a weekly basis. Participants in the intervention group received education about positive ST in eight 20-minute sessions held twice weekly. Data were collected before and 2 months after the intervention using a demographic questionnaire, the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, and the Perinatal Grief Scale. The SPSS v. 16.0 software was used to analyze the data at a significance level of < 0.05 using the Shapiro-Wilk, paired-sample and independent-sample t tests, and chi-square test. Results: The age mean of the participants was 26.40 ± 5.63 years in the intervention group and 24.45 ± 5.11 years in the control group. The groups did not significantly differ from each other respecting baseline demographic and clinical characteristics (P > 0.05). The mean scores of anxiety (control: 4.57 ± 1.98, intervention: 2.60 ± 1.59) and grief (control: 64.85 ± 22.68, intervention: 50.97 ± 16.522) significantly decreased in both groups (P = 0.001, P = 0.003), and the amount of decrease in the intervention group was significantly more than the control group (P < 0.05). Accordingly, the pre-test mean scores of anxiety (P = 0.74) and grief (P = 0.95) did not show significant between-group differences, and the post-test mean scores of anxiety (P < 0.001) and grief (P = 0.004) in the intervention group were significantly less than the control group. Conclusions: Positive ST is effective in significantly reducing anxiety and grief among women with SA. Nurses and psychologists can use positive ST to reduce post-SA psychological complications among afflicted women.

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The Effects of Positive Self-talk on Anxiety and Grief Among Women with Spontaneous Abortion: A Quasi-Experimental Study

Rezaee,

Afhami,

Navvabi-Rigi

2024

Shiraz E-Med J

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“…This approach has the potential to provide insight into participants' typical patterns of self-talk when different kinds of events occur. Some researchers (e.g., Kittani and Brinthaupt, 2023;Łysiak et al, 2023) have asked participants to retrospect about different kinds of prior events (e.g., difficult, negative, or positive) and then report the self-talk and internal dialogues associated with those events. There is also work 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1210960 examining self-talk using prospective or hypothetical situations (e.g., Silk et al, 2020).…”

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Self-talk: research challenges and opportunities

Brinthaupt

Morin

2023

Front. Psychol.

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In this review, we discuss major measurement and methodological challenges to studying self-talk. We review the assessment of self-talk frequency, studying self-talk in its natural context, personal pronoun usage within self-talk, experiential sampling methods, and the experimental manipulation of self-talk. We highlight new possible research opportunities and discuss recent advances such as brain imaging studies of self-talk, the use of self-talk by robots, and measurement of self-talk in aphasic patients.

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