Mental Imagery-Based Training to Modify Mood and Cognitive Bias in Adolescents: Effects of Valence and Perspective

Mental Imagery-Based Training to Modify Mood and Cognitive Bias in Adolescents : Effects of Valence and Perspective

Heyes, S. Burnett (author): Univ Birmingham, Sch Psychol, Birmingham, W Midlands, England;Univ Oxford, Dept Expt Psychol, Oxford, England

Pictet, A. (author): Univ Geneva, Fac Psychol & Educ Sci, Geneva, Switzerland

Raeder, S. M. (author): Univ Oxford, Dept Expt Psychol, Oxford, England;Univ Oxford, Oxford Ctr Human Brain Act, Oxford, England

Lau, J. Y. F. (author): Univ Oxford, Dept Expt Psychol, Oxford, England;Kings Coll London, Inst Psychiat Psychol & Neurosci, London, England

Blackwell, S. E. (author): MRC, Cognit & Brain Sci Unit, Cambridge, England;Ruhr Univ Bochum, Fac Psychol, Mental Hlth Res & Treatment Ctr, Bochum, Germany

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2016-08-08
2017
English.
In: Cognitive Therapy and Research. - : SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS. - 0147-5916 .- 1573-2819. ; 41:1, s. 73-88

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Abstract Subject headings

Mental imagery has a powerful impact on emotion and cognitive processing in adults, and is implicated in emotional disorders. Research suggests the perspective adopted in mental imagery modulates its emotional impact. However, little is known about the impact of mental imagery in adolescence, despite adolescence being the key time for the onset of emotional dysfunction. We administered computerised positive versus mixed valence picture-word mental imagery training to male adolescent participants (N = 60, aged 11-16 years) across separate field and observer perspective sessions. Positive mood increased more following positive than mixed imagery; pleasantness ratings of ambiguous pictures increased following positive versus mixed imagery generated from field but not observer perspective; negative interpretation bias on a novel scrambled sentences task was smaller following positive than mixed imagery particularly when imagery was generated from field perspective. These findings suggest positive mental imagery generation alters mood and cognition in male adolescents, with the latter moderated by imagery perspective. Identifying key components of such training, such as imagery perspective, extends understanding of the relationship between mental imagery, mood, and cognition in adolescence.

By the author/editor: Heyes, S. Burnet ...; Pictet, A.; Mitchell, H.; Raeder, S. M.; Lau, J. Y. F.; Holmes, Emily A.; show more...; Blackwell, S. E.; show less...

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