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. 2011 Dec 7:2:349.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00349. eCollection 2011.

Cognitive and affective control in insomnia

Ralph E Schmidt  1 , Allison G Harvey, Martial Van der Linden
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Cognitive and affective control in insomnia

Ralph E Schmidt et al. Front Psychol. .

Abstract

Insomnia is a prevalent disabling chronic disorder. The aim of this paper is fourfold: (a) to review evidence suggesting that dysfunctional forms of cognitive control, such as thought suppression, worry, rumination, and imagery control, are associated with sleep disturbance; (b) to review a new budding field of scientific investigation - the role of dysfunctional affect control in sleep disturbance, such as problems with down-regulating negative and positive affective states; (c) to review evidence that sleep disturbance can impair next-day affect control; and (d) to outline, on the basis of the reviewed evidence, how the repetitive-thought literature and the affective science literature can be combined to further understanding of, and intervention for, insomnia.

Keywords: affect; emotion regulation; insomnia; repetitive thought; rumination; thought control; thought suppression; worry.

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