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Behav Res Ther. 2009 Dec;47(12):1024-31. doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2009.07.023. Epub 2009 Aug 7.
Cognitive theories of obsessions highlight appraisals of personal significance and thought suppression in the development and maintenance of intrusive thoughts. The current study examined the role of personal significance within the context of a thought suppression paradigm. The primary aim was to examine whether suppression would have differential effects for target thoughts appraised as personally meaningful versus relatively unimportant. A blasphemous thought served as the target thought, and highly religious and nonreligious participants were recruited. Participants completed a two-interval thought suppression task; during interval 1 they were randomly assigned to suppress or not suppress the target thought and during interval 2, all participants were given "do not suppress" instructions. Suppression resulted in sustained frequency of thoughts in contrast to the decline in thought frequency observed for non-suppression. Differential effects of suppression were found across the two groups. Moreover, suppression was associated with increased negative mood and anxiety. Results suggest that suppression of personally meaningful thoughts is a counterproductive strategy.
认知理论强调了在强迫思维的发展和维持过程中对个人意义的评估和思维抑制。本研究在思维抑制范式的背景下考察了个人意义的作用。主要目的是检验对于被评估为个人重要的目标思维和相对不重要的目标思维，抑制是否会产生不同的效果。亵渎的想法被作为目标思维，招募了高度虔诚的宗教参与者和非宗教参与者。参与者完成了一个两间隔思维抑制任务；在间隔 1 期间，他们被随机分配抑制或不抑制目标思维，而在间隔 2 期间，所有参与者都收到了“不要抑制”的指令。与非抑制组观察到的思维频率下降相比，抑制导致思维频率持续。在两个组中都发现了抑制的不同效果。此外，抑制与负面情绪和焦虑的增加有关。结果表明，抑制个人重要的思维是一种适得其反的策略。
