Dr Benjamin Alderson-Day benjamin.alderson-day@durham.ac.uk
Professor
Dr Benjamin Alderson-Day benjamin.alderson-day@durham.ac.uk
Professor
S. McCarthy-Jones
S. Bedford
H. Collins
H. Dunne
C. Rooke
Professor Charles Fernyhough c.p.fernyhough@durham.ac.uk
Professor
Inner speech is a commonly experienced but poorly understood phenomenon. The Varieties of Inner Speech Questionnaire (VISQ; McCarthy-Jones & Fernyhough, 2011) assesses four characteristics of inner speech: dialogicality, evaluative/motivational content, condensation, and the presence of other people. Prior findings have linked anxiety and proneness to auditory hallucinations (AH) to these types of inner speech. This study extends that work by examining how inner speech relates to self-esteem and dissociation, and their combined impact upon AH-proneness. 156 students completed the VISQ and measures of self-esteem, dissociation and AH-proneness. Correlational analyses indicated that evaluative inner speech and other people in inner speech were associated with lower self-esteem and greater frequency of dissociative experiences. Dissociation and VISQ scores, but not self-esteem, predicted AH-proneness. Structural equation modelling supported a mediating role for dissociation between specific components of inner speech (evaluative and other people) and AH-proneness. Implications for the development of “hearing voices” are discussed.
Alderson-Day, B., McCarthy-Jones, S., Bedford, S., Collins, H., Dunne, H., Rooke, C., & Fernyhough, C. (2014). Shot through with voices: Dissociation mediates the relationship between varieties of inner speech and auditory hallucination proneness. Consciousness and Cognition, 27, 288-296. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2014.05.010
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | May 25, 2014 |
Online Publication Date | Jun 28, 2014 |
Publication Date | Jul 1, 2014 |
Deposit Date | Jun 6, 2014 |
Publicly Available Date | Aug 20, 2015 |
Journal | Consciousness and Cognition |
Print ISSN | 1053-8100 |
Publisher | Elsevier |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 27 |
Pages | 288-296 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2014.05.010 |
Keywords | Inner speech, Dissociation, Self-esteem; Hallucination, Psychosis, Dialogicality. |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1425799 |
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