INTRODUCTION Misinterpretation of intrusive thoughts because of obsessive beliefs has been thought to be important in the development of obsessive compulsive symptoms. In current study, (I) the difference between OCD patients and healthy controls in regard of obsessive beliefs and (II) the relation of obsesive beliefs with the prevelance and severity of obsessive compulsive symptoms was investi...

Thought suppression can cause ironic increases in the occurrence of intrusive thoughts. Intrusive thoughts of evaluation could be especially disruptive while undergoing evaluation. Such a context, however, could help suppression efforts as the context provides an external source for which to attribute suppression failures. When suppressing thoughts of evaluation in a non-evaluative context (a c...

OBJECTIVES To explore the factor structure of the Checklist of Children's Distress Symptoms (CCDS); to examine whether there is a higher-order single construct underlying the CCDS measure; and, to assess the association between children's distress symptoms, as reflected by the CCDS factors, and children's self-reported exposure to community violence (both victimization and witness events). DE...

Psychological symptoms, avoidance, and intrusive thoughts were examined prospectively as predictors of cancer progression over a period of 1 year. Sixty-six male and female cancer patients who differed in their diagnoses and initial disease-severity ratings participated. Measures of psychological factors, disease severity, and type of treatment were obtained near time of diagnosis and disease s...

Two previously studied cohorts of women with nonmetastatic breast cancer (Ns = 230 and 136) were reexamined. Participants were assessed during the year after surgery and 5-8 years later. Associations were examined between benefit finding (BF) and several indicators of psychosocial adjustment (e.g., perceived quality of life, positive affect, negative affect, social disruption, and intrusive tho...

In the last century, Mahakavi Bharathiyar set Tamil literature on a new path in terms of content and form. He is one who brought simplicity, innovation, clarity, concentration, truth, solidity into his writings guided this philosophy to be useful. Philosophical thoughts such as patriotism, women's liberation, egalitarian society, social development, sensibilities are notable. works, he has pres...

in present paper, we try to analyze one of maxim gorky’s specific types of characters which almost all assess his works with. studying some works of his fictions and considering the biography of author, it can be claimed that gorky had been the one who knew these types of people very well, lived with them, experienced their plains  and sufferings profoundly and made them to be entered through h...

OBJECTIVES Thought suppression has spurred extensive research in clinical and preclinical fields, particularly with regard to the paradoxical aspects of this behavior. However, the involvement of the brain's inhibitory system in the dynamics underlying the continuous effort to suppress thoughts has yet to be clarified. This study aims to provide a unified perspective for the volitional suppress...

A self-report measure of the emotional and behavioural reactions to intrusive thoughts was developed. The paper presents data that confirm the stability, reliability and validity of the new 7-item measure. Emotional and behavioural reactions to intrusions emerged as separate factors on the Emotional and Behavioural Reactions to Intrusions Questionnaire (EBRIQ), a finding confirmed by an indepen...