Does Self-Reassurance Reduce Neural and Self-Report Reactivity to Negative Life Events?
Whilst research has shown how self-criticism may increase both neural and self-report markers of negative emotion, less well-known is how self-reassurance—a compassionately-motivated cognitive self-relating style—may regulate negative emotion. Using fMRI, we invited participants to engage in self-cr...
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| description | Whilst research has shown how self-criticism may increase both neural and self-report markers of negative emotion, less well-known is how self-reassurance—a compassionately-motivated cognitive self-relating style—may regulate negative emotion. Using fMRI, we invited participants to engage in self-criticism and self-reassurance toward written descriptions of negative life events (mistakes, setbacks, failures). Our results identify that neural markers of negative emotion and self-report markers of trial intensity during fMRI are down-regulated under conditions of self-reassurance, relative to self-criticism. Future work to control for autobiographical memory during this fMRI task is needed, as are controls for how well participants can engage in both thinking styles, to explore how memory/task engagement can contribute to self-reassurance and self-criticism. Engagement in self-reassurance can reduce the “sting” of negative life-events, both neural and self-report, which holds important implications for therapy. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-90b6bd394a4340ad8d4a8067ee2f37142022-12-21T22:22:16ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782021-09-011210.3389/fpsyg.2021.658118658118Does Self-Reassurance Reduce Neural and Self-Report Reactivity to Negative Life Events?Jeffrey J. Kim0Jeffrey J. Kim1Jeffrey J. Kim2James R. Doty3James R. Doty4Ross Cunnington5James N. Kirby6Compassionate Mind Research Group, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, AustraliaThe Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, AustraliaThe Centre for Advanced Imaging, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, AustraliaCompassionate Mind Research Group, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, AustraliaStanford University School of Medicine, California, CA, United StatesCompassionate 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, AustraliaWhilst research has shown how self-criticism may increase both neural and self-report markers of negative emotion, less well-known is how self-reassurance—a compassionately-motivated cognitive self-relating style—may regulate negative emotion. Using fMRI, we invited participants to engage in self-criticism and self-reassurance toward written descriptions of negative life events (mistakes, setbacks, failures). Our results identify that neural markers of negative emotion and self-report markers of trial intensity during fMRI are down-regulated under conditions of self-reassurance, relative to self-criticism. Future work to control for autobiographical memory during this fMRI task is needed, as are controls for how well participants can engage in both thinking styles, to explore how memory/task engagement can contribute to self-reassurance and self-criticism. Engagement in self-reassurance can reduce the “sting” of negative life-events, both neural and self-report, which holds important implications for therapy.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.658118/fullcompassionself-criticismfMRIreassuranceemotion |
| spellingShingle | Jeffrey J. Kim Jeffrey J. Kim Jeffrey J. Kim James R. Doty James R. Doty Ross Cunnington James N. Kirby Does Self-Reassurance Reduce Neural and Self-Report Reactivity to Negative Life Events? Frontiers in Psychology compassion self-criticism fMRI reassurance emotion |
| title | Does Self-Reassurance Reduce Neural and Self-Report Reactivity to Negative Life Events? |
| title_full | Does Self-Reassurance Reduce Neural and Self-Report Reactivity to Negative Life Events? |
| title_fullStr | Does Self-Reassurance Reduce Neural and Self-Report Reactivity to Negative Life Events? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Does Self-Reassurance Reduce Neural and Self-Report Reactivity to Negative Life Events? |
| title_short | Does Self-Reassurance Reduce Neural and Self-Report Reactivity to Negative Life Events? |
| title_sort | does self reassurance reduce neural and self report reactivity to negative life events |
| topic | compassion self-criticism fMRI reassurance emotion |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.658118/full |
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