Repetitive Negative Thinking (RNT) during pregnancy is a key risk factor for psychopathology in the perinatal period. However, cognitive mechanisms underlying prenatal RNT remain poorly understood. Recent research has suggested that tendency to volitionally seek negative rather than positive information (i.e., biased seeking) may contribute formation of more expectations, which turn predict elevated RNT. The current study aimed (i) replicate findings previous demonstrated associations...

Introduction Empathy, a complex and multidimensional construct essential for social functioning mental health, has been extensively studied in both research clinical settings. The Perth Empathy Scale (PES), recently developed self-report measure, assesses cognitive affective empathy across positive negative emotions is based on the self-other model of empathy. This study aimed to evaluate psychometric properties Persian version PES large Iranian sample. Methods A total 868 adults...

<title>Abstract</title> Background Beliefs about emotions are an important yet understudied beliefs proposed to influence emotion regulation and psychological distress. Here, we replicated research on the relationship between in general, regulation, distress, extended it by examining relative importance of one’s <italic>own</italic> <italic>others’</italic> emotions. Methods A sample 244 adults completed self-report measures emotions, as well Results Our results demonstrated that maladaptive...

Beliefs about emotions are an important yet understudied beliefs proposed to influence emotion regulation and psychological distress. Here, we replicated research on the relationship between in general, regulation, distress, extended it by examining relative importance of one’s own others’ emotions. A sample 244 adults completed self-report measures emotions, as well Our results demonstrated that maladaptive associated with a more pattern strategy use heightened This was observed for...

This study investigated the time course of attention to pain and examined moderating effect attentional control in relationship between catastrophizing bias chronic patients.A total 28 patients with 29 pain-free individuals observed pictures pain, happy neutral facial expressions while their gaze behaviour was recorded. Pain intensity duration, anxiety, depression, stress, were assessed by questionnaires.In all subjects, pattern for faces characterized initial vigilance, followed avoidance....

Abstract People’s beliefs about emotions contribute to their psychological wellbeing, and two important concern controllability usefulness. Recently, the Emotion Beliefs Questionnaire (EBQ) was developed assess usefulness of positive negative emotions. To date, most psychometric studies EBQ have been conducted with Western populations, no examined EBQ’s properties among adolescents. We Iranian adolescents (n = 557), adults 347), American 242). Participants also completed Implicit Theories...

Abstract Cognitive models of chronic pain emphasize the critical role catastrophizing in attentional bias to pain-related stimuli. The aim this study was (a) investigate relationship between and ability inhibit selective attention faces (attentional bias); (b) determine whether control moderated relationship. One hundred ten pain-free participants completed anti-saccade task with dynamic facial expressions, specifically painful, angry, happy, neutral expressions questionnaires including a...

Objective A critical factor for adaptive psychological functioning is the ability to successfully regulate negative and positive emotions. Various tools methods have been developed assess emotion regulation competence. Recently, Perth Emotion Regulation Competency Inventory (PERCI) was overcome some of limitations previous assessment including a lack across both To date, no studies examined PERCI's psychometric properties among adolescents non-Western general populations.Method address this...

Objective Alexithymia is a trait defined by difficulty in identifying and describing feelings, as well externally oriented thinking. It an important transdiagnostic risk factor for range of psychopathologies, therefore its assessment substantial interest. Recently, the Perth Questionnaire (PAQ) was developed to try enable more comprehensive assessments alexithymia. To date, no studies have examined PAQ's psychometric properties among adolescents, few non-Western populations.Method address...

The COVID-19 pandemic has been associated with increased uncertainty, fear and worry in everyone's life. effect of changes daily life studied widely, but we do not know how emotion-regulation strategies influence adaptation to a new situation help them overcome the face uncertainty. Here, 1,064 self-selected Farsi speaking participants completed an online battery questionnaires that measured virus illness, worry, intolerance emotion regulation (two subscales: reappraisal, suppression). We...

The current study aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties of Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale-Short Form (DERS-SF) Iran, including testing its measurement invariance across sexes, as well community and student populations. Two samples were recruited: a sample 583 participants (58.7% female; Mage = 33.55) university 409 (67.2% 24.48). Besides DERS-SF, completed battery instruments online, measuring mentalizing capacity borderline personality features. Confirmatory factor...

Alexithymia is characterised by difficulties identifying and describing feelings, as well a lack of focus on feelings. transdiagnostic risk factor for developing wide array psychopathologies, such anxiety depression, with key hypothesised mechanism being the impairing impact alexithymia emotion regulation. However, no study has tested whether regulation mediate link between clinically relevant symptoms using longitudinal designs. The present aimed to address this limitation collecting data...

Cognitive theories of social anxiety implicate greater attention to negative information in the development and maintenance heightened anxiety. Empirical evidence for this proposal, however, has been inconsistent. The aim current study was examine role attentional control, which is one's ability deploy goal-relevant as a potential moderator association between selective responding Eighty-nine adults were recruited through Mechanical Turk platform completed Social Interaction Anxiety Scale...

Estimation of a patient's pain may have considerable impact on the level care that patient receives. Many studies shown contextual factors influence an observer's estimation. Here, we investigate effect impression person in and justification his/her estimation, tendency to help perceived empathy.Thirty healthy individuals (half females) read scenarios aimed manipulate reader's characters who ultimately were fired from their work (four positive four negative; half females). Then they observed...

Cognitive theories of eating disorders implicate Attentional Bias (AB) towards food-related information in the development and maintenance disorders. Empirical evidence for this proposal, however, has been inconsistent, measures used to examine AB stimuli typically showed poor reliability. The aim current study was twofold. Firstly, we aimed psychometric properties a newly devised eye-tracking task assessment context Secondly, examined role Eating Disorder-specific (ED-specific) rumination...

Research across various psychology disciplines underscores death anxiety as a significant construct. Numerous tools assess anxiety, but many have questionable psychometric properties. To address these shortcomings, the Death Anxiety Beliefs and Behaviours Scale (DABBS) was developed, which also assesses death-related maladaptive beliefs behaviours that could be foundational to fears associated with death. We developed Persian version of DABBS, examined its properties among Iranian...

The current study explored the association between elevated prenatal worry and negative expectancies about parenthood potential cognitive mechanisms driving such expectancies. Two main hypotheses were examined: First, that contribute to worry, second, selective interrogation of information contributes formation more parenthood. recruited 92 first-time pregnant women evaluated their expectancies, tendency volitionally choose rather than positive (i.e., demonstrate a bias). Our findings...

<title>Abstract</title> Purpose. While long considered a unitary dimension, research has moved towards multidimensional understanding of trait anxiety. Most relevant to this study, is the conceptualisation two dissociable dimensions anxiety; anxiety reactivity and perseveration. Despite consolidation over past decade, mechanisms underlying these are not well established. The present study examined novel role information processing in experience perseveration, specifically, how enhanced...