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    Comparing a brief self-as-context exercise to control-based and attention placebo protocols for coping with induced pain

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    2014-12
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    Carrasquillo, Nakisha
    Zettle, Robert D.
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    Carrasquillo, Nakisha; Zettle, Robert D. 2014. Comparing a brief self-as-context exercise to control-based and attention placebo protocols for coping with induced pain. Psychological Record, vol. 64:no. 4:pp 659-669
    Abstract
    Of the several processes that purportedly contribute to psychological flexibility, that of enhancing self-as-context, or transcendent perspective taking, has been the least investigated. To address this omission, we conducted two analogue studies with college student participants examining the relative impact of a brief exercise for enhancing the contextual self on pain tolerance (n = 22) by comparing it to control-based (n = 22) and attention-placebo (n = 22) protocols. In Study 1, the self-as-context intervention was a generic one that we modified only slightly from the "observer exercise" presented in Hayes, Strosahl, and Wilson (1999, pp. 193-195). Significant, but equivalent, increases in pain tolerance as assessed by the cold pressor were obtained for the three protocols, with the largest effect size noted for the control-based condition. In Study 2, we compared a self-as-context protocol (N = 22) that was contextualized to the experience of pain to data from Study 1. The contextualized intervention significantly increased pain tolerance compared to the generic self-as-context and attention-placebo conditions of Study 1. The increase was statistically equivalent to that obtained for the control-based condition of Study 1, but represented a greater effect size, suggesting that the relative impact of a generic self-as-context exercise is increased when contextualized to a specific psychological challenge. We discuss the implications of these findings for future research investigating the impact of interventions targeting self-as-context within both analogue and clinical research.
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    http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40732-014-0074-3
    http://hdl.handle.net/10057/11006
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