Self-reassurance reduces neural and self-report reactivity to negative life events
biorxiv(2020)
摘要
Background 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.
Method Using fMRI, we invited participants to engage in self-criticism and self-reassurance toward written descriptions of negative life events (mistakes, setbacks, failures).
Results Our results identify that neural markers of negative emotion and self-report markers of trial intensity during fMRI are suppressed under conditions of self-reassurance, relative to self-criticism.
Limitations Future work to control for autobiographical memory during this fMRI task is needed, to explore how memory can contribute to self-reassurance and self-criticism.
Conclusions Engagement in self-reassurance can reduce the ‘sting’ of negative life-events, both neural and self-report, which holds important implications for therapy.
### Competing Interest Statement
The authors have declared no competing interest.
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关键词
life,self-reassurance,self-report
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