TY - JOUR
T1 - Seeing Things in Black-and-White
T2 - A Scoping Review on Dichotomous Thinking Style1
AU - Bonfá-Araujo, Bruno
AU - Oshio, Atsushi
AU - Hauck-Filho, Nelson
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior – Brasil (CAPES) – Finance Code 001.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Japanese Psychological Association. Published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd.
PY - 2022/10
Y1 - 2022/10
N2 - Dichotomous thinking is a propensity for individuals to understand events as opposites, in a binary way. There are currently two inventories that accurately measure this construct, the Dichotomous Thinking Inventory, and the Dichotomous Thinking in Eating Disorders Scale. The present study aimed to carry out a review process to compile all the empirical studies that have made use of either of these instruments. To achieve this goal, we carried out a scoping review. We conducted a search using the keywords “Dichotomous Thinking Inventory,” “Dichotomous Thinking in Eating Disorders Scale,” and “Thinking Style” in the databases PubMed, Science Direct, and PsycInfo. No limits were imposed on the review. We found 19 articles that met the pre-established criteria; the concentration of research occurred in the last 10 years. It was possible to clarify that the dichotomous way of understanding events occurs, in general, in the presence of maladaptive traits of personality.
AB - Dichotomous thinking is a propensity for individuals to understand events as opposites, in a binary way. There are currently two inventories that accurately measure this construct, the Dichotomous Thinking Inventory, and the Dichotomous Thinking in Eating Disorders Scale. The present study aimed to carry out a review process to compile all the empirical studies that have made use of either of these instruments. To achieve this goal, we carried out a scoping review. We conducted a search using the keywords “Dichotomous Thinking Inventory,” “Dichotomous Thinking in Eating Disorders Scale,” and “Thinking Style” in the databases PubMed, Science Direct, and PsycInfo. No limits were imposed on the review. We found 19 articles that met the pre-established criteria; the concentration of research occurred in the last 10 years. It was possible to clarify that the dichotomous way of understanding events occurs, in general, in the presence of maladaptive traits of personality.
KW - cognitive distortion
KW - dichotomy
KW - instruments
KW - maladaptive traits
KW - personality traits
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U2 - 10.1111/jpr.12328
DO - 10.1111/jpr.12328
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85100574420
VL - 64
SP - 461
EP - 472
JO - Japanese Psychological Research
JF - Japanese Psychological Research
SN - 0021-5368
IS - 4
ER -