Negative automatic thoughts (NAT's): These are unhelpful thoughts that are associated with strong emotions and, as a consequence, produce associated behaviour.
They are 1) (negative) automatic thoughts, being thoughts that surface quickly and automatically when a person is in a particular situation, e.g. "my boss will think less of me", when being late for a meeting 2) Underlying assumptions, being unconscious and unspoken assumptions that govern our everyday behaviour.
The analyses examined the relationship between traumatic experiences and Internet addiction symptoms, with negative automatic thoughts or low self-esteem as mediators of these relations.
Furthermore, only among North Korean adolescent defectors, traumatic experiences were positively associated with Internet addition symptoms via increasing negative automatic thoughts.
Results suggest that the CATS is a promising instrument in the assessment of a range of negative automatic thoughts across both internalizing and externalizing problems in young people.
Psychoeducation, normalizing, evaluation of negative automatic thoughts and dysfunctional schematic beliefs, and focusing on the negative consequences of safety behavior were the main treatment targets in attempting to improve the patients' symptoms and functioning.
The Sexual Modes Questionnaire (SMQ) is a validated and widespread used tool to assess the association among negative automatic thoughts, emotions, and sexual response during sexual activity in men and women.
North Korean adolescent defectors tended to have higher levels of negative automatic thoughts and more severe Internet addiction symptoms, as well as better self-esteem, than did South Korean adolescents.
7 Define and identify Negative Automatic Thoughts (NAT) Relaxation technique: visualisation mental preparation.
Compared to controls, the primary headache patients (especially those with chronic TTH) scored significantly higher for depression (Beck Depression Inventory, BDI), frequency of negative automatic thoughts connected with depression (Automatic Thoughts Scale, ATS), and alexithymia (Toronto Alexithymia Scale, TAS), and lower for assertiveness (Rathus Assertiveness Schedule, RAS).
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