Abstract
Although rumination has been proposed to play an important role in the creation of hallucinations, direct empirical tests of this proposal have not yet been performed. Employing a distinction between ruminative and reflective self-consciousness, we set out to test a new model of the relations among rumination, reflection, intrusive thoughts, thought suppression, social anxiety, and hallucination-proneness. This model proposed that rumination would be related to hallucination-proneness through the mediating variable of intrusive thoughts, but that reflection would not be related to hallucination-proneness. The model was tested in a student population (N = 296) using path analyses. A modified version of the model was found to be a good fit to the data, once a direct path from reflection to hallucination-proneness had been added. As hypothesized, rumination was related to hallucination-proneness only indirectly, through the mediating variable of intrusive thoughts. Implications for interventions and future directions for research are considered.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 54-59 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Behaviour Research and Therapy |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2009 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Auditory verbal hallucination
- Hallucination
- Schizophrenia
- Thought suppression
- Trauma