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Beyond attentional strategies: a cognitive-perceptual model of somatic interpretation
Abstract
The meaning people assign to physical sensations can have profound implications for their physical and psychological health. A predominant research question in somatic interpretation asks if it is more adaptive to distract one's attention away from a potentially unpleasant sensation or to focus one's attention on it. This question, however, has yielded equivocal answers. Many apparent ambiguities in this research can be traced to a failure to distinguish the content of a person's attention from its mere direction or degree. A model of somatic interpretation is discussed, incorporating not only perceptual focus but also the attributions, goals, coping strategies, and prior hypotheses of the perceiver, thus delineating the psychobiological conditions under which various attentional strategies should be adaptive. In contrast to the prevailing concern with when and why somatic distraction doesn't "work," this conceptual analysis also considers when and why somatic attention does. Theoretical and methodological issues are discussed, as is the potential utility of somatic attention in cardiac rehabilitation and multiple sclerosis.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Cioffi, D.
- Affiliations
- University of Houston (US)
- Corresponding author
- Cioffi, Delia
- Venue
- Psychological Bulletin
- Published
- 1991
- Volume
- 109
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 25-41
- ISSN
- 0033-2909 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1455
- OpenAlex
- W2059450453
- Cited by
- 426
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 8.19
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Psychological Bulletin (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Keywords
- attentional strategies, attentional focus, bodily sensations, coping strategies, cardiac rehabilitation, multiple sclerosis, psychobiology
- MeSH terms
- Arousal, Attention, Awareness, Humans, Perception, Sensation, Sick Role, Somatoform Disorders
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