Neural and Self-Report Markers of Reassurance: A Generalized Additive Modelling Approach
Research has shown that engaging in self-reassurance, a compassionately motivated cognitive relating style, can down-regulate neural markers of threat and pain. Whilst important, the relationship between neural and self-report markers of reassurance are largely unknown. Here we analyzed previously p...
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| description | Research has shown that engaging in self-reassurance, a compassionately motivated cognitive relating style, can down-regulate neural markers of threat and pain. Whilst important, the relationship between neural and self-report markers of reassurance are largely unknown. Here we analyzed previously published fMRI data which measured neural responses when participants engaged in self-reassurance toward a mistake, setback, or failure. Within the present paper, we identified correlations between regions of interest extracted during self-reassurance with fMRI and self-report data. Using generalized additive modelling, we show that participants with greater inadequate forms of self-criticism exhibited greater neural activation within the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) and anterior insula (AI). Furthermore, a relationship between greater fears of expressing compassion to the self and neural activation within the MPFC returned non-significant after correction for multiple comparisons. No significant relationships were observed between brain activation and hated and reassuring forms of self-criticism. Our results identify preliminary evidence for neural activity during self-reassurance as correlated with self-report markers, and we outline a method for modelling neural and self-report data which can be applied to future studies in compassion science, particularly with a clinical sample. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-29e9c9afe9224d4696ad220d26a0dac62022-12-21T23:58:31ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychiatry1664-06402020-09-011110.3389/fpsyt.2020.566141566141Neural and Self-Report Markers of Reassurance: A Generalized Additive Modelling ApproachJeffrey J. Kim0Jeffrey J. Kim1Trent Henderson2Talitha Best3Ross Cunnington4James N. Kirby5Compassionate Mind Research Group, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, AustraliaThe Centre for Advanced Imaging, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, AustraliaOrbisant Analytics, Brisbane, QLD, AustraliaSchool of Health, Medical and Applied Sciences, Central Queensland University, Brisbane, QLD, AustraliaCompassionate Mind Research Group, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, AustraliaCompassionate Mind Research Group, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, AustraliaResearch has shown that engaging in self-reassurance, a compassionately motivated cognitive relating style, can down-regulate neural markers of threat and pain. Whilst important, the relationship between neural and self-report markers of reassurance are largely unknown. Here we analyzed previously published fMRI data which measured neural responses when participants engaged in self-reassurance toward a mistake, setback, or failure. Within the present paper, we identified correlations between regions of interest extracted during self-reassurance with fMRI and self-report data. Using generalized additive modelling, we show that participants with greater inadequate forms of self-criticism exhibited greater neural activation within the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) and anterior insula (AI). Furthermore, a relationship between greater fears of expressing compassion to the self and neural activation within the MPFC returned non-significant after correction for multiple comparisons. No significant relationships were observed between brain activation and hated and reassuring forms of self-criticism. Our results identify preliminary evidence for neural activity during self-reassurance as correlated with self-report markers, and we outline a method for modelling neural and self-report data which can be applied to future studies in compassion science, particularly with a clinical sample.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.566141/fullcompassionfMRIself-reportmodellingreassurancecriticism |
| spellingShingle | Jeffrey J. Kim Jeffrey J. Kim Trent Henderson Talitha Best Ross Cunnington James N. Kirby Neural and Self-Report Markers of Reassurance: A Generalized Additive Modelling Approach Frontiers in Psychiatry compassion fMRI self-report modelling reassurance criticism |
| title | Neural and Self-Report Markers of Reassurance: A Generalized Additive Modelling Approach |
| title_full | Neural and Self-Report Markers of Reassurance: A Generalized Additive Modelling Approach |
| title_fullStr | Neural and Self-Report Markers of Reassurance: A Generalized Additive Modelling Approach |
| title_full_unstemmed | Neural and Self-Report Markers of Reassurance: A Generalized Additive Modelling Approach |
| title_short | Neural and Self-Report Markers of Reassurance: A Generalized Additive Modelling Approach |
| title_sort | neural and self report markers of reassurance a generalized additive modelling approach |
| topic | compassion fMRI self-report modelling reassurance criticism |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.566141/full |
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