Shame on me? Love me tender! Inducing and changing shame and fear in social anxiety in an analogous sample
Author(s) / Creator(s)
Fink-Lamotte, Jakob
Hoyer, Jürgen
Platter, Pauline
Stierle, Christian
Exner, Cornelia
Abstract / Description
Shame is considered an important factor in the development and maintenance of many psychological disorders, e.g., social anxiety disorder, and an interesting target point for therapeutic intervention. In the present experimental study, we used an online-adopted Autobiographical Emotional Memory Task to induce shame and tested different micro-interventions (self-compassion, cognitive reappraisal, and a control intervention) with respect to their potential to reduce shame intensity.
One-hundred-and-fifteen healthy subjects participated in the study and completed a series of self-report questionnaires on self-compassion, shame, and social anxiety. The experimental shame induction was well accepted and successful (with significantly heightened feelings of shame); there were no study drop-outs. There was a significant time*condition interaction, which was due the self-compassion-based intervention resulting in a significantly larger reduction of shame than the control condition (counting fishes). In addition, the main effect of the factor experimental condition was further moderated (enhanced) by trait social anxiety and trait self-compassion.
The findings demonstrate the usefulness of online-adopted AEMT for the experimental induction of shame. They suggest that especially self-compassion interventions can be beneficial in alleviating intense shame experiences, which is in accordance with self-compassion theory. Overall, the results are promising in the context of experimental shame research and its potential clinical impacts call for further replication.
Keyword(s)
social anxiety shame shame induction self-compassion reappraisalPersistent Identifier
Date of first publication
2023-06-30
Journal title
Clinical Psychology in Europe
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PsychArchives
Publication status
acceptedVersion
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Fink-Lamotte, J., Hoyer, J., Platter, P., Stierle, C., & Exner, C. (in press). Shame on me? Love me tender! Inducing and changing shame and fear in social anxiety in an analogous sample [Accepted manuscript]. Clinical Psychology in Europe. http://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.12958
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Fink-Lamotte, Jakob
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Hoyer, Jürgen
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Platter, Pauline
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Stierle, Christian
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Exner, Cornelia
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Date of first publication2023-06-30
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Abstract / DescriptionShame is considered an important factor in the development and maintenance of many psychological disorders, e.g., social anxiety disorder, and an interesting target point for therapeutic intervention. In the present experimental study, we used an online-adopted Autobiographical Emotional Memory Task to induce shame and tested different micro-interventions (self-compassion, cognitive reappraisal, and a control intervention) with respect to their potential to reduce shame intensity. One-hundred-and-fifteen healthy subjects participated in the study and completed a series of self-report questionnaires on self-compassion, shame, and social anxiety. The experimental shame induction was well accepted and successful (with significantly heightened feelings of shame); there were no study drop-outs. There was a significant time*condition interaction, which was due the self-compassion-based intervention resulting in a significantly larger reduction of shame than the control condition (counting fishes). In addition, the main effect of the factor experimental condition was further moderated (enhanced) by trait social anxiety and trait self-compassion. The findings demonstrate the usefulness of online-adopted AEMT for the experimental induction of shame. They suggest that especially self-compassion interventions can be beneficial in alleviating intense shame experiences, which is in accordance with self-compassion theory. Overall, the results are promising in the context of experimental shame research and its potential clinical impacts call for further replication.en_US
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Publication statusacceptedVersionen_US
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Review statusrevieweden_US
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CitationFink-Lamotte, J., Hoyer, J., Platter, P., Stierle, C., & Exner, C. (in press). Shame on me? Love me tender! Inducing and changing shame and fear in social anxiety in an analogous sample [Accepted manuscript]. Clinical Psychology in Europe. http://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.12958en_US
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ISSN2625-3410
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Persistent Identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12034/8458
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Persistent Identifierhttps://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.12958
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Language of contentengen_US
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PublisherPsychArchivesen_US
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Is version ofhttps://doi.org/10.32872/cpe.7895
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Keyword(s)social anxietyen_US
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Keyword(s)shameen_US
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Keyword(s)shame inductionen_US
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Keyword(s)self-compassionen_US
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Keyword(s)reappraisalen_US
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Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)150
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TitleShame on me? Love me tender! Inducing and changing shame and fear in social anxiety in an analogous sampleen_US
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DRO typearticleen_US
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Journal titleClinical Psychology in Europeen_US
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Visible tag(s)PsychOpen GOLDen_US
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Visible tag(s)Accepted Manuscripten_US