TY - JOUR
T1 - The varieties of inner speech
T2 - links between quality of inner speech and psychopathological variables in a sample of young adults
AU - McCarthy-Jones, Simon
AU - Fernyhough, Charles
N1 - Corrigendum can be found in Consciousness and Cognition volume 23, p 40-41, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2013.10.008
PY - 2011/12
Y1 - 2011/12
N2 - A resurgence of interest in inner speech as a core feature of human experience has not yet coincided with methodological progress in the empirical study of the phenomenon. The present article reports the development and psychometric validation of a novel instrument, the Varieties of Inner Speech Questionnaire (VISQ), designed to assess the phenomenological properties of inner speech along dimensions of dialogicality, condensed/expanded quality, evaluative/motivational nature, and the extent to which inner speech incorporates other people's voices. In response to findings that some forms of psychopathology may relate to inner speech, anxiety, depression, and proneness to auditory and visual hallucinations were also assessed. Anxiety, but not depression, was found to be uniquely positively related to both evaluative/motivational inner speech and the presence of other voices in inner speech. Only dialogic inner speech predicted auditory hallucination-proneness, with no inner speech variables predicting levels of visual hallucinations/disturbances. Directions for future research are discussed.
AB - A resurgence of interest in inner speech as a core feature of human experience has not yet coincided with methodological progress in the empirical study of the phenomenon. The present article reports the development and psychometric validation of a novel instrument, the Varieties of Inner Speech Questionnaire (VISQ), designed to assess the phenomenological properties of inner speech along dimensions of dialogicality, condensed/expanded quality, evaluative/motivational nature, and the extent to which inner speech incorporates other people's voices. In response to findings that some forms of psychopathology may relate to inner speech, anxiety, depression, and proneness to auditory and visual hallucinations were also assessed. Anxiety, but not depression, was found to be uniquely positively related to both evaluative/motivational inner speech and the presence of other voices in inner speech. Only dialogic inner speech predicted auditory hallucination-proneness, with no inner speech variables predicting levels of visual hallucinations/disturbances. Directions for future research are discussed.
KW - anxiety
KW - auditory hallucination
KW - cognitive behavioral therapy
KW - depression
KW - dialogic
KW - inner speech
KW - rumination
KW - vygotsky
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UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2013.10.008
U2 - 10.1016/j.concog.2011.08.005
DO - 10.1016/j.concog.2011.08.005
M3 - Article
C2 - 21880511
AN - SCOPUS:80054862590
VL - 20
SP - 1586
EP - 1593
JO - Consciousness and cognition
JF - Consciousness and cognition
SN - 1053-8100
IS - 4
ER -