This study examined the relative relationships between global and body-related self-
conscious emotions to indices of positive and negative mental health. North American adults …

The self-discrepancy theory proposes that having inconsistent self-representations can
trigger feelings of shame and guilt, leading to experiences of depression and anxiety. The …

Objective: The Test of Self-Conscious Affect-3 (TOSCA-3) is a scenario-based measure of
self-conscious emotions. We aimed to create an abridged version of the TOSCA-3 that is …

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is characterized by instability in affect, interpersonal
relationships, and impulsivity; individuals with BPD have elevated shame-proneness …

Guilt is associated with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and suicidality, all
of which are prevalent problems among active-duty and veteran United States military …

Shame proneness is associated with psychopathology and may serve as a risk factor for
experiencing distressing emotions at subclinical and clinical levels across diagnoses …

Bulimia nervosa (BN) is associated with medical and psychological impairment. Despite a
stereotype that BN occurs only in affluent populations, BN-spectrum psychopathology is …

Dianne Trumbull's influential article,“Shame: An acute stress response to interpersonal
trauma,” published in Psychiatry in 2003, delves deeply into the ontogeny of shame by …

Results about a possible advantage of Imagery Rescripting (IR) over Imaginal Exposure (IE)
for non-fear emotions associated with traumatic or distressing biographic events are …

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a mental disorder in which a person repeated a
particular thought or feels. The domain of beliefs and guilt predicted OCD symptoms …