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Abstract

The purpose of this study was to analyze the philosophy of thought and its power. Previous research proposes that an individual distinction factor could account for the divergent outcome across thought suppression studies. The present study accounts on the development and validation of the Thought Control Ability Questionnaire (TCAQ), a self-report measure of individual dissimilarities in the seen ability to command unwanted, intrusive thoughts. The TCAQ and a battery of devices that assess emotional vulnerability, psychopathological symptoms and thought control strategies were administered to 211 Spanish university students. Data analysis yielded one-dimensional equipment with 25 pieces that displayed high internal consistency and test-retest reliability. In addition, the TCAQ had significant negative relationships with trait anxiety (STAI-T), neuroticism (EPQ-N), and depressive symptomatology (BDI), guilt sentiments (SC-35), and concern (PSWQ), obsessive-compulsive symptoms (MOCI) and with the use of self-punishment as thought control strategy (TCQ). The implications of these outcomes are considered in relation to thought suppression and clinical research.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 16

Introduction6

Purpose of study7

Literature Review8

Description Of The Strategy16

Research Basis19

Relevant goal Populations And Exceptions20

Complications20

Thoughts Shape Our Reality22

Everything That Exists Is Due To An Existence Of Thought27

The harmony of Thinking and Reality29

Hegel's Absolute Idealism35

Idealism and Contemporary Qualitative Research38

CHAPTER 341

Methodology41

Participants41

Procedure41

Measures42

Intrusion and suppression42

Impulsivity45

Aggression47

Psychopathology48

CHAPTER 449

Results49

Intrusive thoughts, thought suppression, impulsivity and aggression49

Intrusive thoughts, contending mechanisms and psychopathology50

CHAPTER 553

Discussion and Conclusion53

REFERENCES59

APPENDIX65

Chapter 1

Introduction

The Young Tolstoy, or so the story goes, was standing in the corner of a room, after his male sibling had challenged him to stand there until he could stop considering of white bears (Wegner, 1989). This left him standing there, mystified, for a considerable amount of time. From this we may resolve that we manage not seem to have much command over our minds, especially when it comes to commanding thoughts that are unwanted. The know-how of unwanted, so-called intrusive thoughts is a occurrence discovered in both clinical and normal populations (e.g. Rachman & De Silva, 1978; Wells & Morrison, 1994). Over 80% of the individuals in the general population know-how intrusions. 'Normal' intrusions encompass considering of cigarettes when one just stop smoking, the death of a loved one, an imminent medical appointment, and so on. Examples of pathological intrusions are obsessions, addictions, and considered patterns attribute of depression and panic-states (see Wegner, 1989). Pathological intrusive thoughts have been described as being more common, more intense, longer lasting, to make more discomfort and to invoke more resistance ( Rachman & De Silva, 1978; Salkovskis & Harrison, 1984).

Whead covering causes the transformation of usual unwanted thoughts into pathological ones? Wegner (1989) argued that seeking not to believe ...