Level of processing modulates benefits of writing about stressful events: Comparing generic and specific recall

Vrielynck, Nathalie; Philippot, Pierre; Rimé, Bernard

doi:10.1080/02699930903172161

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“…The Describing facet's strong negative association with sexual distress suggests that noting or mentally labeling emotions, cognitions, and sensations during sexual activities might be related to decreased sexual distress. This result is consistent with neuroscience findings demonstrating that the conscious labeling of affect modulates the brain's responses to emotional stimuli (e.g., Lieberman et al, 2007), as well as with other studies that show describing the details of an emotional experience reduces general psychological distress (e.g., Vrielynck, Philippot, & Rimé, 2010).…”

Section: Adam Heeren Day and De Suttersupporting

confidence: 81%

Development of the Sexual Five-Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ-S): Validation Among a Community Sample of French-Speaking Women

Adam¹,

Heeren²,

Day³

et al. 2014

The Journal of Sex Research

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It has been recently demonstrated that mindfulness-based intervention may be particularly suitable for addressing sexual difficulties in women. Although the FiveFacet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ) is currently one of the most widely used scales to assess mindfulness, no adaptation and validation of the FFMQ to measure female sexual functioning has been published. The main aim of this study was to develop and validate a sexual version of the Five Facets Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ-S) to specifically measure mindfulness in the context of sexual encounters. A total of 251 healthy, French-speaking female volunteers were administered the FFMQ-S, the original FFMQ, and the Female Sexual Distress Scale (FSDS-R). Confirmatory factor analyses indicated that the FFMQ-S exhibits a five-factor model, as implied by the original FFMQ. Good scale reliability was observed. The FFMQ-S showed significant correlations with the FSDS-R and the usual FFMQ. Scores on the FFMQ-S correlated significa... It has been recently demonstrated that mindfulness-based intervention may be particularly suitable for addressing sexual difficulties in women. Although the Five-Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ) is currently one of the most widely used scales to assess mindfulness, no adaptation and validation of the FFMQ to measure female sexual functioning has been published. The main aim of this study was to develop and validate a sexual version of the Five Facets Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ-S) to specifically measure mindfulness in the context of sexual encounters. A total of 251 healthy, French-speaking female volunteers were administered the FFMQ-S, the original FFMQ, and the Female Sexual Distress Scale (FSDS-R). Confirmatory factor analyses indicated that the FFMQ-S exhibits a five-factor model, as implied by the original FFMQ. Good scale reliability was observed. The FFMQ-S showed significant correlations with the FSDS-R and the usual FFMQ. Scores on the FFMQ-S correlated significantly more negatively with the total FSDS-R score than with the total score of the original version of the FFMQ. These findings clearly support the relevance of developing a version of the FFMQ tailored to sexual functioning.

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confidence: 81%

Development of the Sexual Five-Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ-S): Validation Among a Community Sample of French-Speaking Women

Adam¹,

Heeren²,

Day³

et al. 2014

The Journal of Sex Research

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“…Results for the Nonreactivity facet are convergent with recent findings suggesting that improvement in top-down attention control, and more particularly inhibitory control, reduces psychological distress ( Heeren, Coussement, & McNally, 2016 ; Houben, Wiers, & Jansen, 2011 ; Owens, Koster, Derakshan, 2013 ; Schweizer, Grahn, Hampshire, Mobbs, & Dalgleish, 2013 ). Results for the Describing facet are consistent with recent neuroscientific findings demonstrating that verbal labeling of affect modulates brain responses to emotional stimuli ( Hariri, Bookheimer, & Mazziotta, 2000 ; Lieberman et al, 2007 ) and with evidence showing that a larger description of the details related to emotional experiences significantly reduces negative affect ( Raes, Williams, & Hermans, 2009 ; Vrielynck, Philippot, & Rimé, 2010 ).…”

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confidence: 87%

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Trichotillomania: A Bayesian Case-Control Study

Heeren¹,

Busana²,

Coussement³

et al. 2015

Psychologica Belgica

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Over the last years, mindfulness-based interventions combined with habit reversal training have been demonstrated to be particularly suitable for addressing trichotillomania. However, because these studies always combined mindfulness training to habit reversal without including either a mindfulness or habit reversal condition alone, it is still unclear whether clinical benefits are the consequences of mindfulness or merely result from habit reversal training. The primary purpose of the present study was thus to examine whether a mindfulness training procedure without habit reversal could alleviate trichotillomania. Using a Bayesian probabilistic approach for single-case design, client’s hair loss severity and level of mindfulness were compared to a normative sample (n = 15) before treatment, after treatment, and at six-month follow-up. Improvement in mindfulness first occurred, and that beneficial effect then transferred to hair-pulling. Indeed, as compared to the normative sample, the client exhibited, from baseline to post-treatment, an improvement in mindfulness. Although a marginal trend to improvement was already evidenced at post-treatment, the mindfulness program only had a significant beneficial effect transferred to hair-loss severity at six-month follow-up. Although it remains particularly difficult to infer generalization from one client, the data from the present case study are the first to suggest that mindfulness training per se might be a suitable clinical intervention for trichotillomania.

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“…In this scenario, expressive writing interventions promote a beneficial meaning-making and integrative process of traumatic experience into one’s own life story, thereby constructing a narrative that connects emotion and cognition shattered by trauma and supporting health; physical benefits and emotion regulation ( Boals, 2012 ; Boals, Banks, Hathaway, & Schuettler, 2011 ; de Campora, Giromini, Larciprete, Li Volsi, & Zavattini, 2014 ; Freda, De Luca Picione, & Martino, 2015 ; Martino, Freda, & Camera, 2013 ; Schutte, Searle, Meade, & Dark, 2012 ; Vrielynck, Philippot, & Rimé, 2010 ). The narrative is a space for transformation and resignifies the traumatic experience, through which the narrator reconstructs a broken self-narrative story after a traumatic experience ( Angus & McLeod, 2004 ; Hermans, 2003 ; McAdams, 2008 ; Neimeyer, 2002 ).…”

Section: Emotional and Cognitive Processing Through Expressive Writinmentioning

confidence: 99%

Linguistic Markers of Processing Trauma Experience in Women’s Written Narratives During Different Breast Cancer Phases: Implications for Clinical Interventions

2015

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Research into the change processes underlying the benefits of expressive writing is still incomplete. To fill this gap, we investigated the linguistic markers of change in cognitive and emotional processing among women with breast cancer, highlighting the differences and peculiarities during different treatment phases. A total of 60 writings were collected from 20 women: 10 receiving chemotherapy and 10 receiving biological therapy. We performed a series of repeated measures ANOVA for the most meaningful LIWC linguistic categories, including positive/negative emotions and cognitive processes, to assess change over three sessions. Results demonstrated a significant increase in the positive emotions category for the entire group of women, with particular relevance for the biological therapy group of women, and a marginally significant (p = .07) greater use of words indicating cognitive processes for women receiving biological therapy. For the negative emotions category time was significant for the whole group of women, showing a peak of use in the second session of writing. Peculiar differences in the linguistic markers of processing trauma were observed between the two groups. Although the writing intervention is a support for both groups of women, it seems to be beneficial when there is a large time gap since the administration of chemotherapy and, thus, when the patient can revisit the experience. The relationship of the illness with life can be rearticulated, and the writing becomes a space for resignifying the traumatic cancer experience.

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Level of processing modulates benefits of writing about stressful events: Comparing generic and specific recall

Cited by 15 publications

References 38 publications

Development of the Sexual Five-Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ-S): Validation Among a Community Sample of French-Speaking Women

Development of the Sexual Five-Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ-S): Validation Among a Community Sample of French-Speaking Women

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Trichotillomania: A Bayesian Case-Control Study

Linguistic Markers of Processing Trauma Experience in Women’s Written Narratives During Different Breast Cancer Phases: Implications for Clinical Interventions

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