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Brain Imaging Investigation of the Impairing Effect of Emotion on Cognition
Published on: February 1, 2012
Poor cognitive-emotional processing may impede the outcome of emotional disclosure interventions
Henriët van Middendorp1, Rinie Geenen
1Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands. H.vanMiddendorp@uu.nl
Objectives:
To examine the potential relevance of alexithymia and induced cognitive-emotional processing for the efficacy of emotional disclosure.
Methods:
Associations were examined of alexithymia and emotional and cognitive word use with self-assessed psychological and disease activity outcome in 37 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (23 females; mean age 58 years).
Results:
Cognitive and positive emotion word use during the disclosure sessions predicted improved psychological well-being but not disease activity after the intervention. Negative emotion word use and alexithymia did not significantly predict outcome.
Conclusion:
Our study suggests that poor cognitive-emotional processing may impede the outcome of emotional disclosure interventions.
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