2019, Vol.5, No.2

Clinical Psychology in Korea: Research and Practice 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.83

pISSN : 2466-0787
https://journal.kci.go.kr/cpkjournal

This study was to examine whether Smoking Motivation played a mediating role in the association between Difficulties in Emotional Regulation and Nicotine Dependence to adolescent smokers. All 5 sub factors of Smoking Motivation Questionnaire(SMQ) used as a mediating factors. For this study, a total of 195 adolescent smokers completed a self-reporting questionnaire on Difficulties in Emotional Regulation, Smoking Motivation, Nicotine Dependence. The results indicated that Need for Pleasurable Relaxation and Habitual Smoking mediated the relationship between Difficulties in Emotional Regulation and Nicotine Dependence. However, Need for Negative Affect Control, Need for Mental Activity, Need for Social Appeal didn’t mediate the relationship between Difficulties in Emotional Regulation and Nicotine Dependence. These findings suggest that Difficulties in Emotional Regulation affect Nicotine Dependence indirect, through Need for Pleasurable Relaxation and Habitual Smoking.

This study examined if the relationship between childhood emotional maltreatment and adult depressive symptoms in college students was mediated by cognitive vulnerabilities and experiential avoidance. A total of 325 college students completed questionnaires to assess childhood emotional maltreatment, cognitive vulnerability, experiential avoidance, and depression. Results indicated that cognitive vulnerability and experiential avoidance mediated the relationship between childhood emotional maltreatment and depressive symptoms. In addition, a full-mediation model demonstrated a better model fit than a partial-mediation model. These findings suggest the importance of focusing intervention on the development of internal experience acceptance capacity, as well as on cognitive vulnerabilites. The limitations of the study and future directions were discussed.

The purpose of this study was to explore self-characteristics that influence self-stigma associated with seeking counseling. The role of self-construal and dysfunctional attitude in the process of self-stigmatization was examined, and whether the change in dysfunctional attitude increases the intention to seek counseling by reducing self-stigma was investigated. In Study 1, with the participation of 209 college students, the relationships among self-construal, dysfunctional attitude, and self-stigma were examined. It showed that a higher level of independent self-construal related to the lower level of self-stigma, whereas there was no significant correlation between relational self-construal and self-stigma. The result also showed that a higher level of dysfunctional attitude(autonomy, sociotropy) related to the higher level of self-stigma. It showed that self-stigma exerted negative influence on the intention to seek counseling. Study 2 explored the strategies for reducing self-stigma. For this purpose, the author developed two dysfunctional attitude treatment conditions, each of which was made to modify the dysfunctional belief in autonomous or sociotropic self and was then compared to the educational treatment with counseling benefits that did not directly handle self. Total 71 subjects participated in the experiment and self-stigma, dysfunctional attitude, and intentions to seek counseling were measured at three times(pre-treatment, post-treatment, and a week following the treatment). The result showed improvement for the three treatment groups after the treatment, whereas there was no difference among the treatment groups, and there was no interaction between time and the groups. However, when the correlation between the change in measurements for different groups was examined, treatments showed a differential tendency. Diminished dysfunctional attitude correlated with decreased self-stigma and decreased self-stigma correlated with increased intention to seek counseling for the two dysfunctional attitude treatment groups. Futhermore, the treatment effect of intention to seek counseling was lasted more on dysfunctional attitude treatment groups than on education group. Lastly, the implications and limitations of this study were discussed with suggestions for further research.