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01-06-2014 | Original Article

Cognitive Specificity in Fear and Sad Affect: An Investigation of Emotional Reactivity and Recovery from Experimental Mood Induction

Auteurs: Adriana del Palacio-González, David A. Clark

Gepubliceerd in: Cognitive Therapy and Research | Uitgave 3/2014

Abstract

Beck’s (Cognitive therapy of the emotional disorders. New American Library, New York, 1976) cognitive content specificity hypothesis states that anxiety and depression can be differentiated by their thought content. Although Beck extended the hypothesis to normal emotion states, the generalizability of content specificity has not been demonstrated. In the current study 183 students were randomly assigned to view a fearful or sad movie clip, followed by an expressive writing task to induce mood recovery. Positive and negative cognitions and emotional reactivity were assessed before and after the movie clip, as well as after recovery. Only threat/danger cognitions demonstrated specificity after fear induction. Negative and coping loss/failure thoughts exhibited the same pattern of change with induction and recovery across both emotion conditions, thus showing non-specificity. The findings supported the cognitive specificity hypothesis for fear but not normal sad affect. Discussion of the generalizability of the cognitive content specificity hypothesis and its implication for cognitive theories of emotion are considered.

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A copy of the Thought Checklist is available upon request to the first author.

Full instructions for the expressive writing exercise are available upon request to the first author.

Although we can assume that the majority of participants were non-clinical, we did not conduct diagnostic assessments so the clinical status of the sample cannot be guaranteed. To determine whether a few highly distressed students at greater risk of having a clinical disorder might have undue influence on the experimental findings, the same analysis was performed on a subsample (n = 127) in which students who scored in the clinical range of the MASQ AA or AD subscales were excluded (subscale cut-off scores were based on Boschen and Oei 2007). As well, students who produced inadequate movie summaries (<3 keywords) were also excluded from the reanalysis. There were no significant changes in group differences on the VASs or the Thought Checklist and so the original sample was retained for subsequent analyses.

Reanalyzes were performed on the Thought Checklist subscales for the total sample (N = 183) regardless of whether or not individuals exhibited the predicted mood shift with film exposure. Once again there were no significant differences with the main analyses that were based on the participants who exhibited at least a 10-point shift in their VAS ratings.

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Titel: Cognitive Specificity in Fear and Sad Affect: An Investigation of Emotional Reactivity and Recovery from Experimental Mood Induction
Auteurs: Adriana del Palacio-González
David A. Clark
Publicatiedatum: 01-06-2014
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Cognitive Therapy and Research / Uitgave 3/2014
Print ISSN: 0147-5916
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-2819
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-013-9592-6

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