It comprises the three scales «symptom -
focused rumination», «self -
focused rumination» and «distraction» for which participants are asked to indicate their normal behavior when feeling sad or depressed on a Likert - type scale ranging from 1 («almost never») to 4 («almost always»).
Effects of Self -
Focused Rumination on Negative Thinking and Interpersonal Problem Solving.
Not exact matches
We started with a
focus on the SOPA protests and Chris Dodd's new education on the power of internet politics, but we went much farther afield, including
ruminations on the nature of a post-manufacturing America... yep, we did some good, old - fashioned nerding out (in which the eternal subject of a genocidal war of robots vs. humans did of course come up).
The dorsal attention and default systems, important for attention or
focus and internal mental thoughts or
rumination, respectively, also showed significant occurrences.
Teens who tend to interpret events in negative ways (negative cognitive style) and who tend to
focus on their depressed mood following such events (
rumination) are at greater risk of depression.
There were a few arresting installations, nonetheless, such as Danh Vo's floating gilded cardboard segments that comment on moral transgressions, for which the Marian Goodman gallery eliminated its walls; Liu Wei's architectural Library at Lehmann Maupin that collapses a metropolis to outrageous effect and, among the young artists who showed gripping promise, Aki Sasamoto's Luncheon Field, which livened the
Focus section with a table perforated to suspend forks that bobbed in the breeze of a fan, and Eddie Peake's
rumination on past and future that filled the Lorcan O'Neill booth with a tinted Plexiglas and steel installation involving a bear, a robot and lost Atlantis viewed through a meandering cut - out.
Pirker's calm, cinematic
ruminations have
focused on architectural subjects such as modernist buildings by John Lautner and Rudolf Schindler.
Art historian Gloria Sutton engages LA - based artist Julian Hoeber in a conversation that
focuses on how the artist's work critically transposes architecture and visual art by translating spatial paradigms of the body and the built environment (e.g. exploring notions of interiority,
rumination and the liminal).
With an unwieldy subject thus reduced to manageable scale, the intimate dimensions of each canvas — approximately three by two feet — prove more than adequate for the artist's personal
ruminations on a primeval atmosphere, allowing her to expend less effort on referencing specific aspects of the text and
focus instead on abstract painting's inherent immediacy.
As you might imagine, the blawg
focuses on developments in the technology industry, or, as the site tag says, «law, technology, finance and other
ruminations.»
This team perspective inevitably takes us closer to state - of - the - legal industry
ruminations than the editions
focused on individual excellence.
Traditional problem -
focused Cognitive Behavioral Treatment (CBT) of anxiety addresses deficits in coping with both children and parents such as avoidance, distraction,
rumination, self - blame and catastrophizing.
Our 12 - week program is adapted from MBSR, a structured 8 - week program of instruction in the cultivation of mindfulness, a practice of purposeful nonjudgmental attention to the happenings of the present moment.5 MBSR programs consist of 3 components: (1) didactic material related to mindfulness, meditation, yoga, and the mind - body connection; (2) experiential practice of various mindfulness meditations, mindful yoga, and body awareness during group meetings and encouragement of home practice; and (3) group discussion
focused on the application of mindfulness to everyday situations and problem - solving related to barriers to effective practice.5, 13,14 The MBSR program includes a number of formal and informal techniques, all of which share the goal of enhancing nonjudgmental present -
focused awareness, aimed to reduce dysregulated
focus on the past (ie,
rumination) and worries about the future (ie, anxiety).
5) The Stress Reactive
Rumination Scale (SRRS; Robinson & Alloy, 2003) assesses three cognitive tendencies in response to major life stressors: the tendency to
focus on the negative attributions and inferences that characterises the negative inferential style (9 items; α = 0.90); the tendency to
focus on hopeless cognitions (5 items; α = 0.94); and the tendency to
focus on active coping strategies and problem - solving solutions (7 items; α = 0.83).
Further, when the learner constantly repeats the same negative thoughts and events without acting (e.g., finding it difficult to
focus on the math problem because of negative thoughts such as «I'll fail»; «I suck at math»), we speak of
rumination.
The third group of items covers strategies that
focus on the negative aspects of the situation, by dramatizing them (catastrophizing), by constantly thinking them over (
rumination) or by convincing oneself that they are beyond one's control (learned helplessness) and this third group was therefore called «negative self - talk».
ABSTRACT: Theorists have suggested that self -
focused attention has adaptive and maladaptive aspects and have proposed self -
rumination and self - reflection.
In contrast, being distracted diminished PA, while
focusing on negative details and engaging in negative
rumination reduced LS.
Results show that when experiencing positive events,
focusing attention on the present moment and engaging in positive
rumination promoted PA, whereas telling others promoted LS.
Focusing on the present moment and being open to sensory experience can increase positive emotions and build resources, challenging negative affect and
rumination.
(We assessed
rumination and thought suppression because we wanted to
focus on the cognitive, rather than the emotional, aspects of the attachment - mindfulness association.)
Previous research on self -
focus and mindfulness have shown that self -
rumination increases depression and counteracts decentering which is the capacity to take a detached view of one's thoughts and emotions.
Women, on the other hand, tend to use more emotion
focused as well as dysfunctional individual coping strategies (e.g. self - accusation,
rumination, negative expression of emotion) and prefer to search for and to engage in social coping (Ptacek, Smith & Dodge, 1994; Tamres, Janicki & Helgeson, 2002; Vingerhoets & van Heck, 1990).