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Chronic Thought Suppression
Abstract
We conducted several tests of the idea that an inclination toward thought suppression is associated with obsessive thinking and emotional reactivity. Initially, we developed a self-report measure of thought suppression through successive factor-analytic procedures and found that it exhibited acceptable internal consistency and temporal stability. This measure, the White Bear Suppression Inventory (WBSI), was found to correlate with measures of obsessional thinking and depressive and anxious affect, to predict signs of clinical obsession among individuals prone toward obsessional thinking, to predict depression among individuals motivated to dislike negative thoughts, and to predict failure of electrodermal responses to habituate among people having emotional thoughts. The WBSI was inversely correlated with repression as assessed by the Repression-Sensitization Scale, and so taps a trait that is quite unlike repression as traditionally conceived.
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“Suppression is a specific avoidance strategy, which when used as a primary strategy of coping is associated to a high level of depressive and obsessive symptoms (17) .”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Wegner, D. M., & Zanakos, S.
- Affiliations
- University of Virginia (US)
- Venue
- Journal of Personality
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 1994-12
- Volume
- 62
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 615-640
- ISSN
- 0022-3506 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-6494
- OpenAlex
- W2030767477
- Cited by
- 1,245
- References
- 20
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- FWCI
- 8.26
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Personality (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research
- Keywords
- thought suppression, obsessive thoughts, White Bear Suppression Inventory, emotional reactivity, depression, anxiety, repression, electrodermal response, habituation, self-report measure development
- MeSH terms
- Affect, Depressive Disorder, Humans, Obsessive Behavior, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Repression, Psychology, Thinking
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