Exploring the relationship of decentering to health related concepts and cognitive and metacognitive processes in a student sample
| Autor: | Siegfried Gauggel, Thomas Forkmann, Ramona Kessel, Verena Mainz, Judith Gecht, Barbara Drueke |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Male 050103 clinical psychology Mindfulness Psychometrics medicine.medical_treatment Dysfunctional family Neuropsychological Tests Developmental psychology Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences Metacognitive monitoring 0302 clinical medicine ddc:150 Task Performance and Analysis medicine Humans Attention 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences General Psychology Decentering Rasch model Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Depression 05 social sciences Cognition General Medicine Mental health Self Concept 030227 psychiatry Cognitive therapy Self-focussed attention Female Metacognition Psychology Research Article Stroop effect Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | BMC Psychology 4(1), 11 (2016). doi:10.1186/s40359-016-0115-6 BMC Psychology |
| ISSN: | 2050-7283 |
| DOI: | 10.1186/s40359-016-0115-6 |
| Popis: | Background Decentering, a central change strategy of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, is a process of stepping outside of one’s own mental events leading to an objective and non-judging stance towards the self. The study aimed at investigating associated mechanisms of decentering. Method The present study investigated the relation of decentering, operationalized by means of the German Version of the Experiences Questionnaire, to severity of depressive symptoms, assessed by the adaptive Rasch-based depression screening, and self-focussed attention, assessed by the Questionnaire of Dysfunctional and Functional Self-Consciousness. Furthermore, the relationship between decentering and a) the ability to shift and allocate attention by means of the Stroop test, and b) metacognitive monitoring, i.e. the absolute difference between judged and real task performance, was investigated. These relationships were examined in 55 healthy students using Pearson’s correlations. Results In line with our assumptions, higher decentering scores were significantly associated with lower scores on severity of depressive symptoms, with higher functional- and lower dysfunctional self-focussed attention. Contrary to our expectations, results neither indicated a relationship between decentering and attention ability, nor between decentering and metacognitive monitoring. Conclusions The present results suggest that decentering is associated with concepts of mental health (i.e. less severity of depressive symptoms and higher functional self-focussed attention). Overall, the concept decentering seems to be mainly composed of self-focussed aspects when investigated in a healthy sample without intervention. Further investigations of associated concepts of decentering should consider aspects of self-relevance and emotional valence. |
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