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Sara Rigler

3 papers in the library · publishing 2026

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The lifeworld of people who ruminate

dCOBISS.SI Digital Repository July 16, 2026 Aleš. autoth(SI-MaCOB)387237891 Oblak, Sara Rigler, Nika Kovačič et al.

Background: Ruminations are persistent, repetitive, and often distressing thoughts centered on negative events, mood states, and psychiatric symptoms. Recognized as a maladaptive cognitive process, ruminating contributes to the onset and persistence of psychiatric disorders and is strongly linked to negative emotional states, self-criticism, and suicidality. Despite its clinical significance, a...

DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2026.1649971/full (opens in new tab) Lifeworld Ruminating Perspective graphical Interpretative phenomenological analysis +17

“Prideful Apathy”: A Phenomenological-Psychopathological Study of Emotion Engagement and Regulation Tasks

Brain Sciences January 7, 2026 Aleš Oblak, Sara Rigler, Liam Korošec Hudnik et al.

Background/Objectives: Emotion dysregulation is central to many psychiatric disorders. Laboratory-based tasks designed to assess emotion processing and regulation often rely on standardized affective stimuli whose ecological validity remains unclear. We contextualize this study in our broader research program of neurophenomenological reflection of standard paradigms in experimental cognitive...

DOI: 10.3390/brainsci16010080 (opens in new tab) Feeling Cognition Experiential learning Negative affectivity +10

The lifeworld of people who ruminate: a qualitative phenomenological study.

Frontiers in Psychiatry 2026 Aleš Oblak, Sara Rigler, Nika Kovačič et al.

Ruminations are persistent, repetitive, and often distressing thoughts centered on negative events, mood states, and psychiatric symptoms. Recognized as a maladaptive cognitive process, ruminating contributes to the onset and persistence of psychiatric disorders and is strongly linked to negative emotional states, self-criticism, and suicidality. Despite its clinical significance, a...

DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2026.1649971 (opens in new tab) Full text (opens in new tab) Depression Lifeworld analysis Micro-phenomenology Phenomenological psychopathology +2