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Mental Imagery-Based Training to Modify Mood and Cognitive Bias in Adolescents: Effects of Valence and Perspective.

  • Burnett Heyes S School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK.
  • Pictet A Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
  • Mitchell H Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK.
  • Raeder SM Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
  • Lau JYF Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
  • Holmes EA Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK.
  • Blackwell SE Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK.
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  • 2017-02-28
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  • Cognitive therapy and research. - 2017
Adolescence
Cognitive bias modification
Cognitive training
Emotion
Field perspective
Mental imagery
Observer perspective
Psychopathology
Scrambled sentences task
English Mental imagery has a powerful impact on emotion and cognitive processing in adults, and is implicated in emotional disorders. Research suggests the perspective adopted in mental imagery modulates its emotional impact. However, little is known about the impact of mental imagery in adolescence, despite adolescence being the key time for the onset of emotional dysfunction. We administered computerised positive versus mixed valence picture-word mental imagery training to male adolescent participants (N = 60, aged 11-16 years) across separate field and observer perspective sessions. Positive mood increased more following positive than mixed imagery; pleasantness ratings of ambiguous pictures increased following positive versus mixed imagery generated from field but not observer perspective; negative interpretation bias on a novel scrambled sentences task was smaller following positive than mixed imagery particularly when imagery was generated from field perspective. These findings suggest positive mental imagery generation alters mood and cognition in male adolescents, with the latter moderated by imagery perspective. Identifying key components of such training, such as imagery perspective, extends understanding of the relationship between mental imagery, mood, and cognition in adolescence.
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