The effect of rumination and distraction on auditory hallucinatory experiences: An analogue experimental study.

Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry
Amanda AndersonSandra Bucci

Abstract

The cognitive model of voices suggests that negative appraisals of hallucinatory experiences result in responses, such as rumination, which maintain voice-hearing. Our principal aim was to investigate the effect of rumination on the frequency of voice-hearing. A two-group randomised experimental design was employed using a non-clinical sample. A total of 106 participants completed baseline measures of trait rumination, hallucination-proneness, mood and state negative affect, and were presented with a voice-hearing paradigm. False feedback designed to cause a negative interpretation of auditory intrusions was provided and participants were randomly allocated to either a distraction or rumination condition. Participants performed the auditory task for a second time, and the total number of false alarms and distress scores were compared between groups. A Mann-Whitney U test revealed that the manipulation of rumination was successful (p = 0.007). We did not detect a statistically significant difference between the distraction and rumination groups for total false alarms (p = 0.282) or distress (p = 0.387) scores. Findings largely relate to a female undergraduate psychology sample. Results of this non-clinical study do not support t...Continue Reading

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