a Department of Pain, Palliative Care and Integrative Medicine , Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota , Minneapolis , MN , USA.
b Department of Psychology , Oklahoma State University , Stillwater , OK , USA.
Psychol Health Med. 2018 Jan;23(1):69-81. doi: 10.1080/13548506.2017.1325507. Epub 2017 May 19.
The present study examined the impact of asthma-specific thought intrusion (TI) and thought suppression (TS) on two cognitive-affective variables (self-focused attention and fear of negative evaluation) among adolescents and young adults (AYAs) diagnosed with childhood-onset asthma. Participants were 290 AYAs who completed assessment questionnaires and participated in a written exercise electronically. Asthma-TI and TS were reported by participants following participation in a writing assignment. Asthma-TI was associated with increased private, public, and social anxiety self-focused attention, and greater fear of negative evaluation. Interestingly, asthma-TS was not associated with these same outcome variables. Findings suggest illness-specific cognitions are associated with cognitive-affective variables and it may be important to assess for illness-specific intrusive thoughts following asthma-focused medical appointments. Additionally, findings suggest the importance of assessing asthma-TI and TS separately in order to better understand thoughts about health and psychological functioning.
本研究考察了哮喘特异性思维闯入（TI）和思维抑制（TS）对患有儿童期起病哮喘的青少年和年轻人（AYAs）的两个认知-情感变量（自我关注和对负面评价的恐惧）的影响。参与者为 290 名 AYAs，他们完成了评估问卷并通过电子方式参与了书面练习。参与者在完成写作任务后报告了哮喘-TI 和 TS。哮喘-TI 与增加的私人、公共和社会焦虑的自我关注以及更大的对负面评价的恐惧相关。有趣的是，哮喘-TS 与这些相同的结果变量无关。研究结果表明，疾病特异性认知与认知-情感变量相关，在进行哮喘相关的医疗预约后，评估疾病特异性的侵入性思维可能很重要。此外，研究结果表明，分别评估哮喘-TI 和 TS 以更好地理解关于健康和心理功能的思维非常重要。
