Ling-Chen Wu

Escaping from worries: Comparing the effectiveness of focusing on one's breath, a neutral and a positive distractor in worry control.

Current Psychology September 19, 2022 Ling-Chen Wu, Yunn-Wen Lien, Yu-Jeng Ju

Focused-distraction strategies are commonly used for thought control, but their effectiveness in handling personal worries with different types of distractors has rarely been examined. To examine this issue, 101 undergraduate and graduate students whose depression levels fell below mild depression were recruited (64.4% female, M age = 20.27) and were randomly assigned to one of the three...