Dataset for "Mindfulness for voices: An experimental analogue study"

Improving treatments for people who hear negative voices (e.g. with threatening or hostile content) is a clinical priority as they can cause high levels of distress and impairment to people in their everyday life. We know that people who are less distressed by voices tend to report using a more mindful response style (e.g. letting the voices come and go in their own time) compared to people who are more distressed by voices. This was the first experimental study to directly test the effect of instructing people to use a mindful acceptance response style compared to an attentional avoidance response style using an established voice simulation paradigm. The results of the study showed that adherence to the response style people were instructed to adopt was low, meaning that it was not possible to conclude whether training people to respond with a mindful response style to voices might result in less distress and anxiety and better cognitive functioning compared to an avoidant response style.

This dataset supports the paper "Mindfulness for voices: An experimental analogue study of the effect of manipulating response style to simulated voices in a non-clinical population". It contains measures related to the Southampton Mindfulness Questionnaire and Toronto Mindfulness Scale; measures of average response time and proportion of correct responses; measures of baseline and post-test anxiety and distress, participants' self-report of response style, and perceived awareness of the research hypothesis; and demographic information about the participants. Supporting the dataset are the experimental protocol, scripts and recordings for induction exercises, the codebook and the R analysis script.

Keywords:
Cognition, Cognitive behavioural therapy, Hallucinations, Auditory, Mindfulness, Psychotic disorders
Subjects:
Psychology

Cite this dataset as:
Jacobsen, P., Muddle, S., Jones, B., Chadwick, P., 2023. Dataset for "Mindfulness for voices: An experimental analogue study". Open Science Framework (OSF). Available from: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/TPJHS.

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Creators

Sarah Muddle
University of Bath

Bradley Jones
University of Bath

Paul Chadwick
University of Bath

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University of Bath
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Data collection method:

Full details of the methodology can be found in the associated paper.

Methodology link:

Jones, B., Muddle, S., Jenkins, T., Kitapci, N., and Jacobsen, P., 2023. Mindfulness for voices: An experimental analogue study of the effect of manipulating response style to simulated voices in a non‐clinical population. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/papt.12468.

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Publication details

Publication date: 23 April 2023
by: Open Science Framework (OSF)

Version: 1

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/TPJHS

URL for this record: https://researchdata.bath.ac.uk/id/eprint/1276

Related papers and books

Jones, B., Muddle, S., Jenkins, T., Kitapci, N., and Jacobsen, P., 2023. Mindfulness for voices: An experimental analogue study of the effect of manipulating response style to simulated voices in a non‐clinical population. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/papt.12468.

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Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Psychology