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This study examined the capacity of regulating one's conceptual self memory in community sample survivors of complex trauma with high levels of sensation based trauma memory representations. In the directed forgetting paradigm experiment, the experimental group with high sensation based trauma memory (n=10), as compared to the control group with low sensation based trauma memory (n=10), showed lower recall effects for trait words that represents the opposite of one's conceptual self. This result supports the relationship between posttraumatic self concept problems and trauma memory features. Among survivors of complex trauma with high levels of sensation based trauma memory representations, rigidity and bias of the conceptual self memory network, lowered cognitive capacity for cues other than the conceptual self, and lower competition capacity for the alternative conceptual self may be related to posttrauamatic self concept problems. Limitations and clinical implications of this study were also discussed.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the extent to which rumination mediates the relationships between self-criticism and disordered eating behaviors. In this study, 489 undergraduate students participated and were asked to complete questionnaires corresponding to the self-criticism scale, Ruminative Response Scale (K-RRS) and the disordered eating behavior scale (KEAT-26). The results obtained through structural equation modeling confirmed the validity of the complete mediation model of rumination between self-criticism and disordered eating behaviors. Additionally, the differences in the two subtypes of rumination in the proposed mediating model were examined. The results confirmed the complete mediating effect of both Brooding and Reflection. The results suggest that if people with self-criticism ruminate excessively, then they are apt to show disordered eating behaviors. Finally, the implications and limitations of this study were addressed and suggestions made for future studies.
The present study was to investigate the relationship between of gambling problem, irrational gambling belief and deficit of decision making which is well known to have a close relationship with each other. In Study I I, questionnaire was used to investigate the relationship between irrational gambling belief and gambling problem. A total of 720 undergraduates completed the Gambling belief questionnaire(GBQ) and Canadian problem gambling index(CPGI); and GBQ was positively correlated with CPGI. In Study II, an experiment was carried out. Based on the analysis of the questionnaire (study I), subjects were classified into the top, middle and bottom 7% as experiment participants(each group N= 30). The participants were to complete the Iowa gambling task(IGT) -computer version- as the implicit decision making task and the Game of dice task(GDT) -computer version- as the explicit decision making task. Significant correlation or regression was not confirmed in most of the measured variables; however, there was a significant positive correlation only between GDT score and reasoning on overestimating technique that sub-factor of GBQ. This finding disagrees with the hypothesis of this study, which was a negative correlation between GBQ and two decision making task scores.
The purpose of this study was to explore the experience and evaluation of trainees regarding the training courses of professional clinical psychology to investigate the implications of current training courses. The following are the selection criteria. 1) Having undergone all of the training course in Korea (graduate program and hospital training), 2) Having finished graduate program within 3 years or experiened hospital training in the last 2 years, 3) Having trained in a hospital that has been established for more than 5 years and with at least 10 interviewed trainees. According to the criteria, we recruited 10 trainees. After the semi-structured interviews, we analyzed the data accordance with the consensual qualitative research (CQR). The analysis revealed 6 themes and 27 categories: 1) motivation for wanting to be a clinical psychologist, 2) reason for choosing the particular graduate school, 3) reason for choosing the particular hospital, 4) experience and evaluation during the graduate program, 5) experience and evaluation during hospital practice courses, and 6) the meaning of training courses. Based on the results, positive evaluations and negative evaluations are comprehensively discussed, and recommendation on improving the negative aspects are provided.
This paper includes a case study which aimed to understand, analyze, and improve self-harming (cutting) behaviors of a female patient. One of the purposes of the study was to find out the theoretical perspectives that could help understand and explain the aggressive behaviors in my self-harming patient. For this, I gathered and reviewed the existing psychoanalytic theories on aggression; these theories tended to look at the origin and nature of the aggressive drive. I then described Fonagy's theory of mentalization and affect regulation, in addition to other theories on representational/self-reflective function. Based on these theories, which focused on the function of aggression, I investigated the pathological aspect of aggression as a failure of the defensive process of aggression. Lastly, I described the therapeutic work done with the patient over the course of two years. The therapy process was psychoanalytically-oriented because it intended to promote therapeutic alliance, analyze/interpret transference, and countertransference, and create the intersubjective process in developing the patient's psychological self.
