ArticleChildren (Basel, Switzerland)2021
Mental Imagery and Social Pain in Adolescents-Analysis of Imagery Characteristics and Perspective-A Pilot Study.
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- Investigating the Moderating Effect of Language Attitude in the Interplay Among Social Media Addiction, Social Pain and Internet Trolling in College Students.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Psychometric properties and item response theory analysis of the Persian version of the social pain questionnaire.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Sensory processing sensitivity and social pain: a hypothesis and theory.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundMental imagery (MI) may play a key role in the development of various mental disorders in adolescents. Adolescence is known to be a fragile life period, in which acceptance by one's favored peer group is extremely important, and social rejection is particularly painful. This is the first pilot study investigating MI and its relationship to social pain (SP).
methodA sample of 80 adolescents (14-20 years; 75.3% female) completed a web-based quasi-experimental design about the contents and characteristics of their spontaneous positive and negative MI and associated emotions, and were asked to complete the Social Pain Questionnaire, the Becks Depression Inventory and the Social Phobia Inventory.
resultsA higher score of SP was significantly associated with increased fear, sadness, and feelings of guilt, and less control over negative MI. Characteristics of negative MI were more precisely predicted by SP scores than depression- and social anxiety scores. Adolescents with higher SP-scores more often reported negative images including social situations and were more likely to perceive negative images in a combination of field-and observer perspectives than adolescents with lower SP scores.
conclusionSP-sensitivity seems to be linked to unique characteristics of negative MI, which reveals the strong emotional impact of social exclusion in youths. The results do not allow causal conclusions to be drawn, but raise questions about previous studies comparing each imagery perspective individually.
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