The associations between imageability of positive and negative valence words and fear reactivity
This study investigated the associations of imageability with fear reactivity. Imageability ratings of four word classes: positive and negative (i) emotional and (ii) propriosensitive, neutral and negative (iii) theoretical and (iv) neutral concrete filler, and fear reactivity scores – degree of fea...
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| author | Raghunath, Bindiya Lakshmi Mulatti, Claudio Neoh, Michelle Jin-Yee Bornstein, Marc H. Esposito, Gianluca |
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| description | This study investigated the associations of imageability with fear reactivity. Imageability ratings of four word classes: positive and negative (i) emotional and (ii) propriosensitive, neutral and negative (iii) theoretical and (iv) neutral concrete filler, and fear reactivity scores – degree of fearfulness towards different situations (TF score) and total number of extreme fears and phobias (EF score), were obtained from 171 participants. Correlations between imageability, TF and EF scores were tested to analyze how word categories and their valence were associated with fear reactivity. Imageability ratings were submitted to recursive partitioning. Participants with high TF and EF scores had higher imageability for negative emotional and negative theoretical words. The correlations between imageability of negative emotional words and negative theoretical words for EF score were significant. Males showed stronger correlations for imageability of negative emotional words for EF and TF scores. High imageability for positive emotional words was associated with lower fear reactivity in females. These findings were discussed with regard to negative attentional bias theory of anxiety, influence on emotional systems, and gender-specific coping styles. This study provides insight into cognitive functions involved in mental imagery, semantic competence for mental imagery in relation to fear reactivity, and a potential psycholinguistic instrument assessing fear reactivity. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1467112023-03-05T15:32:17Z The associations between imageability of positive and negative valence words and fear reactivity Raghunath, Bindiya Lakshmi Mulatti, Claudio Neoh, Michelle Jin-Yee Bornstein, Marc H. Esposito, Gianluca School of Social Sciences Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine) Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Trento, Italy Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD, USA Institute for Fiscal Studies, London, UK Social sciences::Psychology Mental Imagery Fear Reactivity This study investigated the associations of imageability with fear reactivity. Imageability ratings of four word classes: positive and negative (i) emotional and (ii) propriosensitive, neutral and negative (iii) theoretical and (iv) neutral concrete filler, and fear reactivity scores – degree of fearfulness towards different situations (TF score) and total number of extreme fears and phobias (EF score), were obtained from 171 participants. Correlations between imageability, TF and EF scores were tested to analyze how word categories and their valence were associated with fear reactivity. Imageability ratings were submitted to recursive partitioning. Participants with high TF and EF scores had higher imageability for negative emotional and negative theoretical words. The correlations between imageability of negative emotional words and negative theoretical words for EF score were significant. Males showed stronger correlations for imageability of negative emotional words for EF and TF scores. High imageability for positive emotional words was associated with lower fear reactivity in females. These findings were discussed with regard to negative attentional bias theory of anxiety, influence on emotional systems, and gender-specific coping styles. This study provides insight into cognitive functions involved in mental imagery, semantic competence for mental imagery in relation to fear reactivity, and a potential psycholinguistic instrument assessing fear reactivity. Published version This research was funded by the NAP-SUG program of the Nanyang Technological Univer- sity (G.E.), the Intramural Research Program of the NIH/NICHD, USA (M.H.B.), and an International Research Fellowship at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), London, UK (M.H.B.), funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 695300-HKADeC-ERC- 2015-AdG) (M.H.B.). The founder agencies had no role in the conceptualization, design, data collection, analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. 2021-03-08T02:21:34Z 2021-03-08T02:21:34Z 2021 Journal Article Raghunath, B. L., Mulatti, C., Neoh, M. J.-Y., Bornstein, M. H., & Esposito, G. (2021). The associations between imageability of positive and negative valence words and fear reactivity. Psychiatry International, 2, 32-47. doi:10.3390/psychiatryint2010003 2673-5318 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/146711 10.3390/psychiatryint2010003 2 32 47 en Psychiatry International © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | Social sciences::Psychology Mental Imagery Fear Reactivity Raghunath, Bindiya Lakshmi Mulatti, Claudio Neoh, Michelle Jin-Yee Bornstein, Marc H. Esposito, Gianluca The associations between imageability of positive and negative valence words and fear reactivity |
| title | The associations between imageability of positive and negative valence words and fear reactivity |
| title_full | The associations between imageability of positive and negative valence words and fear reactivity |
| title_fullStr | The associations between imageability of positive and negative valence words and fear reactivity |
| title_full_unstemmed | The associations between imageability of positive and negative valence words and fear reactivity |
| title_short | The associations between imageability of positive and negative valence words and fear reactivity |
| title_sort | associations between imageability of positive and negative valence words and fear reactivity |
| topic | Social sciences::Psychology Mental Imagery Fear Reactivity |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/146711 |
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