Mental Contamination, Disgust, and Other Negative Emotions Among Survivors of Sexual Trauma: Results from a Daily Monitoring Study

2021 ◽  
pp. 102477
Author(s):  
C. Alex Brake ◽  
Jordyn M. Tipsword ◽  
Christal L. Badour
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Trauma ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Daily Monitoring ◽  
Mental Contamination ◽  
Monitoring Study

Mental Contamination, PTSD Symptoms, and Coping Following Sexual Trauma: Results from a Daily Monitoring Study

2021 ◽  
pp. 102517
Author(s):  
Jordyn M. Tipsword ◽  
C. Alex Brake ◽  
Jesse McCann ◽  
Matthew W. Southward ◽  
Christal L. Badour
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Trauma ◽  
Ptsd Symptoms ◽  
Daily Monitoring ◽  
Mental Contamination ◽  
Monitoring Study ◽  
And Coping

scholarly journals Disgust as a unique affective predictor of mental contamination following sexual trauma

2014 ◽  
Vol 28 (7) ◽  
pp. 704-711 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christal L. Badour ◽  
Rachel Ojserkis ◽  
Dean McKay ◽  
Matthew T. Feldner
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Trauma ◽  
Mental Contamination

Unwanted Sexual Experiences and Cognitive Appraisals That Evoke Mental Contamination

2013 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryotaro Ishikawa ◽  
Osamu Kobori ◽  
Eiji Shimizu
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Cognitive Appraisal ◽  
Sexual Experience ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Cognitive Appraisals ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Sexual Experiences ◽  
Unwanted Sexual Experiences ◽  
Mental Contamination ◽  
Unwanted Sexual Experience

Background: Mental contamination is a psychological sense of contamination that involves an internal, emotional feeling of dirtiness that may be evoked by unwanted thoughts and images, such as sexual assaults. Aims: This study aimed to investigate which types of unwanted sexual experiences evoke the strongest mental contamination, and to test the hypothesis that cognitive appraisals of an unwanted sexual experience predict indices of mental contamination (i.e. feeling of dirtiness, urge to wash, internal negative emotions, and external negative emotions). Method: 148 female participants were asked to recall their most distressing unwanted sexual experiences. Indices of mental contamination and cognitive appraisals of the experience were then assessed. Results: Our findings indicated that individuals recalling experiences related to rape felt more intense feelings of dirtiness than individuals recalling other types of unwanted sexual experience, such as verbal sexual assault, visual sexual assault, and forcible touching/frottage. In addition, hierarchical regression analyses demonstrated that a cognitive appraisal of perceived violation predicted all of the indices of mental contamination after controlling anxiety, depression, and fear of contact contamination. Conclusions: The present study demonstrated that an individual is at greatest risk of mental contamination if she has experienced rape/attempted rape, and if she makes a cognitive appraisal of violation regarding the incident.

Symptoms of posttraumatic stress predict craving among alcohol treatment seekers: Results of a daily monitoring study.

2012 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 724-733 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tracy L. Simpson ◽  
Cynthia A. Stappenbeck ◽  
Alethea A. Varra ◽  
Sally A. Moore ◽  
Debra Kaysen
Keyword(s):  
Posttraumatic Stress ◽  
Alcohol Treatment ◽  
Daily Monitoring ◽  
Monitoring Study ◽  
Treatment Seekers

scholarly journals Proximal relationships between PTSD symptoms and drinking among female college students: Results from a daily monitoring study.

2014 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debra Kaysen ◽  
David C. Atkins ◽  
Tracy L. Simpson ◽  
Cynthia A. Stappenbeck ◽  
Jessica A. Blayney ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Female College Students ◽  
Ptsd Symptoms ◽  
Female College ◽  
Daily Monitoring ◽  
Monitoring Study

Low Self-Control of Emotions as an Antecedent of Self-Reported Physical Symptoms: A Longitudinal Perspective

2001 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marja Kokkonen ◽  
Lea Pulkkinen ◽  
Taru Kinnunen
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Physical Symptoms ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Personality Characteristics ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Eysenck Personality Questionnaire ◽  
Positive Direction ◽  
Data Collections ◽  
Low Self Control

The study was part of the Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Personality and Social Development, underway since 1968, in which children's low self-control of emotions was studied using teacher ratings at age 8 in terms of inattentiveness, shifting moods, aggression, and anxiety. The study was based on data from 112 women and 112 men who participated in the previous data collections at ages 8, 27, and 36. At age 27, the participants had been assessed in Neuroticism (N) using the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire , and at age 36 they filled in several inventories measuring, among others, conscious and active attempts to repair negative emotions in a more positive direction as well as physical symptoms. The present study used structural equation modeling to test the hypothesis that personality characteristics indicating low self-control of emotions at ages 8 and 27 are antecedents of self-reported physical symptoms at age 36; and that this relationship is indirect, mediated by attempts to repair negative emotions in a more positive direction. The findings showed, albeit for men only, that inattentiveness at age 8 was positively related to self-reported physical symptoms at age 36 via high N at age 27 and low attempts to repair negative emotions at age 36. Additionally, N at age 27 was directly linked to self-reported physical symptoms at age 36. The mediation of an active attempt to repair negative emotions was not found for women. Correlations revealed, however, that shifting moods and aggression in girls were antecedents of self-reported physical symptoms in adulthood, particularly, pain and fatigue.

Towards a Validation of Multiple Features in the Assessment of Emotions

1998 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 202-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne Skiffington ◽  
Ephrem Fernandez ◽  
Ken McFarland
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Cognitive Appraisal ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
The Self ◽  
Factor Analyses ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Multiple Features ◽  
Action Tendency ◽  
Intensity Range

This study extends previous attempts to assess emotion with single adjective descriptors, by examining semantic as well as cognitive, motivational, and intensity features of emotions. The focus was on seven negative emotions common to several emotion typologies: anger, fear, sadness, shame, pity, jealousy, and contempt. For each of these emotions, seven items were generated corresponding to cognitive appraisal about the self, cognitive appraisal about the environment, action tendency, action fantasy, synonym, antonym, and intensity range of the emotion, respectively. A pilot study established that 48 of the 49 items were linked predominantly to the specific emotions as predicted. The main data set comprising 700 subjects' ratings of relatedness between items and emotions was subjected to a series of factor analyses, which revealed that 44 of the 49 items loaded on the emotion constructs as predicted. A final factor analysis of these items uncovered seven factors accounting for 39% of the variance. These emergent factors corresponded to the hypothesized emotion constructs, with the exception of anger and fear, which were somewhat confounded. These findings lay the groundwork for the construction of an instrument to assess emotions multicomponentially.

Daily Experiences of Commuting Strain and Self-Control at Work and at Home

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 125-134
Author(s):  
Bettina S. Wiese ◽  
Olivia Chaillié ◽  
Ruth Noppeney ◽  
Anna M. Stertz
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Control ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Emotional Stability ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Diary Data ◽  
Daily Experiences ◽  
At Home

Abstract. The study investigates how commuting strain affects daily self-control capacities at work and at home. Irritability (i.e., increased readiness to express negative emotions when facing frustration) and concentration (i.e., a cognitive control capacity that relies on attention) were used as indicators of (impaired) self-control. Based on 5-day diary data from N = 185 train commuters, we found that on days with a strenuous ride from home to work, commuters indicated higher irritability and lower concentration capacity at work. On days with higher strain during the work-to-home ride, commuters reported to be more irritable back home. Moreover, commuters with low emotional stability turned out to be more affected by commuting strain but only if considering self-control impairment at home.

When Does Voice Have to be More Than Only Listening? Procedural Justice Effects as a Function of Confident Leadership

2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
David De Cremer ◽  
Maarten Wubben
Keyword(s):  
Procedural Justice ◽  
Interaction Effect ◽  
Laboratory Experiments ◽  
Negative Emotions

The present research examined how voice procedures and leader confidence affect participants’ negative emotions and willingness to withdraw. It was predicted that receiving voice would be valued out of instrumental concerns, but only when the enacting leader was high in confidence. Two laboratory experiments indeed showed an interaction between type of voice (pre-decisional vs. post-decisional) and leader’s confidence (low vs. high) on participants’ negative emotions and willingness to withdraw. In particular, post-decision voice only led to more negative responses than did pre-decision voice when the enacting leader was high in confidence. Negative emotions mediated this interaction effect of type of voice on willingness to withdraw. Implications for integrating the leadership and procedural justice literatures are discussed.

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