ArticleFrontiers in behavioral neuroscience2015
Increased perceived self-efficacy facilitates the extinction of fear in healthy participants.
Article in Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03105024 (Enhancing Exposure), which is not on this map. Cited by 20 papers.
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Enhancing Exposure: the Impact of Self-efficacy Enhancement on Treatment Outcome
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20 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Natural language processing reveals differences in mental time travel at higher levels of self-efficacy.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Feeling more confident to encounter negative emotions: The mediating role of distress tolerance on the relationship between self-efficacy and outcomes of exposure and response prevention for OCD.Journal of affective disorders · 2024Article
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- The role of self-efficacy in specific fears.PloS one · 2023Article
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- Self-Efficacy As a Target for Neuroscience Research on Moderators of Treatment Outcomes in Pediatric Anxiety.Journal of child and adolescent psychopharmacology · 2020Article
- Well Done! Effects of Positive Feedback on Perceived Self-Efficacy, Flow and Performance in a Mental Arithmetic Task.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- From Extinction Learning to Anxiety Treatment: Mind the Gap.Brain sciences · 2019Article
- Low Perceived Self-Efficacy Impedes Discriminative Fear Learning.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- State-of-the-art and future directions for extinction as a translational model for fear and anxiety.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2018Review
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Abstract
Self-efficacy has been proposed as an important element of a successful cognitive behavioral treatment (CBT). Positive changes in perceived self-efficacy have been linked to an improved adaptive emotional and behavioral responding in the context of anxiety-provoking situations. Furthermore, a positive influence of increased self-efficacy on cognitive functions has been confirmed. The present study examined the effect of verbal persuasion on perceived self-efficacy and fear extinction. Healthy participants were subjected to a standardized differential fear conditioning paradigm. After fear acquisition, half of the participants received a verbal persuasion aimed at increasing perceived self-efficacy. The extinction of fear was assessed immediately thereafter on both the implicit and explicit level. Our results suggest that an increased perceived self-efficacy was associated with enhanced extinction, evidenced on the psychophysiological level and accompanied by more pronounced decrements in conditioned negative valence. Changes in extinction were not due to a decrease in overall emotional reactivity to conditioned stimuli (CS). In addition, debriefing participants about the false positive feedback did not affect the processing of already extinguished conditioned responses during a subsequent continued extinction phase. Our results suggest that positive changes in perceived self-efficacy can be beneficial for emotional learning. Findings are discussed with respect to strategies aimed at increasing extinction learning in the course of exposure-based treatments.
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