Rumination, reflection, intrusive thoughts, and hallucination proneness: Towards a new model.

Jones, S.R.; Fernyhough, C.

Abstract

Although rumination has been proposed to play an important role in the creation of hallucinations, direct empirical tests of this proposal have not yet been performed. Employing a distinction between ruminative and reflective self-consciousness, we set out to test a new model of the relations among rumination, reflection, intrusive thoughts, thought suppression, social anxiety, and hallucination-proneness. This model proposed that rumination would be related to hallucination-proneness through the mediating variable of intrusive thoughts, but that reflection would not be related to hallucination-proneness. The model was tested in a student population (N = 296) using path analyses. A modified version of the model was found to be a good fit to the data, once a direct path from reflection to hallucination-proneness had been added. As hypothesized, rumination was related to hallucination-proneness only indirectly, through the mediating variable of intrusive thoughts. Implications for interventions and future directions for research are considered.

Citation

Jones, S., & Fernyhough, C. (2009). Rumination, reflection, intrusive thoughts, and hallucination proneness: Towards a new model. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 47(1), 54-59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2008.09.008

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: 2009-01
• Journal: Behaviour Research and Therapy
• Print ISSN: 0005-7967
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 47
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 54-59
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2008.09.008