Year: 2006
Type: dissertation
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Objectives The emotional experience of individuals who experience psychosis has to a large extent been neglected, possibly in part due to the historical divide between the psychoses and neuroses.However recent research would suggest that individuals who experience psychosis experience emotional dysfunction to a similar extent as those with other mental health problems.The relatively new field of emotion regulation may provide insight into emotional dysfunction in psychosis and therefore the aim of this thesis is to better understand emotional experience and regulation in psychosis in comparison with other mental health problems and healthy volunteers.Design This study used a between-groups design and was based on an opportunity sample of patients attending clinical psychology departments.Methods Three groups of participants were recruited for this study comprising of 21 individuals who had experienced psychosis, 21 individuals with an anxiety/mood disorder and 21 healthy volunteers.The participants completed 2 measures of emotion regulation: the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ) and the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire-2 (ERQ-2); a measure of emotional experience: the Basic Emotions Scale and a measure of coping strategies: the Brief COPE.
Source: ERA
Author: Karen Livingstone
Language: English
Subfield: Psychiatry and Mental health
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2794866853