Relationship between inner dialog and ideas of reference and the mediating role of dissociation |
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| Authors: | Gloria Bellido‐Zanin Salvador Perona‐Garcelán Cristina Senín‐Calderón Ana María López‐Jiménez Juan Francisco Rodríguez‐Testal |
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| Affiliation: | 1. University Hospital Virgen del Rocío, Seville, Spain;2. Department of Personality, Evaluation and Psychological Treatment, University of Seville, Seville, Spain;3. Department of Psychology, University of Cadiz, Cadiz, Spain;4. Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Seville, Seville, Spain |
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| Abstract: | Recent lines of research have begun to concentrate on internal dialogue and its relationship to a diversity of psychopathological phenomena present in psychotic disorders. This study was intended as a preliminary exploration of the relationship of internal dialogue, dissociation and ideas of reference. To do this, a sample of 318 students filled in an internal dialogue scale (the VISQ, McCarthy‐Jones & Fernyhough), one for dissociation (DES‐II, Carlson & Putnam) and another for ideas of reference (REF, Lenzenweger, Bennett & Lilenfeld). The results confirm the hypothesis posed in the sense that internal dialogue was positively associated with dissociation and with ideas of reference. A partial mediation effect of dissociation was also found between inner speech and ideas of reference. Lines of future research this study opens and its possible integration in a model on ideas of reference are discussed. |
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| Keywords: | Inner speech ideas of reference dissociation dialogic self psychosis |
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