OBJECTIVE To investigate differences in self-focused attention between college students with childhood-onset asthma and a group of healthy controls and to determine whether self-focused attention mediates the relationship between illness uncertainty and psychological distress among individuals with asthma. METHODS Forty-two adolescent and young adult participants with childhood-onset asthma a...

Abstract Objectives Goal-direct actions require integrating processing of stimuli and responses, which is why close stimulus-response bindings have to be created. However, the strength these can modified. The metacontrol state model (MSM) hypothesizes that this achieved through mindfulness meditation. Yet, cognitive processes underlying possible effects meditation on S-R remain unexplored. Meth...

Research examining the influence of affect on self-focused attention has concentrated exclusively on the valence dimension (i.e., negative-positive) of affect. The authors propose that the dimension of affect orientation (i.e., reflective-social) illuminates considerably this relation.A reflective orientationrefers to a tendency for inaction, whereas a social orientation refers to a tendency fo...