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- The research examines how repressive and non-repressive individuals differ in their ability to control thoughts consciously.
- Sixty-three Spanish university students completed two questionnaires to assess their thought control abilities and tendencies to suppress thoughts, categorized by their levels of anxiety.
- The findings indicate that individuals with low anxiety, regardless of being repressors or not, felt more capable of managing unpleasant thoughts and suppressed them less compared to those with high anxiety.
Article Abstract
The purpose of the present research is to assess differences between repressors and non repressors in some aspects associated with conscious thought control. Thus, Sixty-three Spanish university students with different combinations of trait anxiety and defensiveness completed the Thought Control Ability Questionnaire (TCAQ) and the White Bear Suppression Inventory (WBSI). Data analysis showed that subjects with low anxiety (repressors and low anxious) reported higher perceived ability to control unpleasant thoughts and less tendency to suppress than did subjects with high anxiety (high anxious and defensive high anxious). Implications of these results are discussed in relation to recent researches that have explored the association between repression and thought suppression.
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