期刊名称：International Journal of Psychology and Psychological Therapy
印刷版ISSN：1577-7057
出版年度：2016
卷号：16
期号：3
页码：265-279
语种：English
出版社：Universidad de Almería
其他摘要：Metaphor is a tool frequently used in psychotherapy such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), a contextual behavioral model of psychological intervention rooted in an approach to human language and cognition known as Relational Frame Theory (RFT). This experimental analogue study aimed to analyze the effect of two variables in the metaphor effect on promoting psychological Áexibility according to RFT: (a) the presence of common physical properties between the individual’s experience and the metaphor, and (b) the speciÀcation of appetitive augmental functions in the metaphor content. A 2x2 factorial design was implemented where the presence/absence of the above-mentioned variables was manipulated. Eighty-three participants Àrst responded to measures of experiential avoidance, cognitive fusion, and generalized pliance. Subsequently, they were exposed to a cold-pressor task at pretest. Afterwards, participants were randomly assigned to four experimental protocols consisting of a metaphor that included: (a) common physical properties and augmental functions, (b) only common physical properties, (c) only augmental functions, and (d) none of these variables. Then, participants were re-exposed to the cold-pressor task (posttest). The results showed that both variables had a statistically signiÀcant effect on the pain tolerance induced by the cold-pressor task.
其他关键词：Metaphor; ACT; Relational Frame Theory; physical properties; augmenting; personal values.
