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Dr. Kennedy Oberhiri Obohwemu, a well-known Nigerian researcher and mental health advocate working in the UK, has made a major contribution to the field of mental health research worldwide. According to Arewa PUNCH research, his most recent work presents the Self-Comforting Attitude Theory (SCAT) and its companion Self-Comforting Attitude Scale (SCAS), providing a novel viewpoint on self-comforting behaviors and emotional resilience. Our correspondent claims that this innovation enhances his already well-known work, the Self-Comforting and Coping Scale and the Self-Comforting and Coping Theory. These theories and measures work together to provide a thorough model that evaluates self-comforting behavior as well as perception, providing a deeper comprehension of psychological resilience and emotional control.
Despite being submitted for peer review at roughly the same time, Obohwemu’s body of work has gained international attention and academic credibility thanks to the formal publication of the SCAT and SCAS in Mental Health & Prevention, an Elsevier peer-reviewed journal that is indexed in Web of Science and Scopus. The attitudes and beliefs that affect a person’s desire to do self-comforting behaviors, like emotional self-talk and mindfulness, are examined by the SCAT and SCAS. Researchers, educators, and mental health practitioners have hailed this breakthrough as a timely and culturally flexible framework that is especially pertinent in the current environment of increased emotional stress and disparities in mental health.
“The SCAT and SCAS provided an innovative framework for measuring how individuals perceive and evaluate self-comforting behaviors, which are internal strategies used to manage emotional distress,” Dr. Obohwemu noted in reference to his ground-breaking achievement. “The research was inspired by his lived experience during the COVID-19 lockdowns, which emphasised the importance of internal resources in managing emotional distress,” added Dr. Obohwemu, a lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, GBS Partnership, Birmingham, UK. “People frequently rely on internal resources to stay emotionally afloat in times of crisis,” he continued.
However, their perception of such tactics—whether they consider self-comfort to be weak or intelligent, indulgent or necessary—largely determines whether they use them. “That’s what SCAT and SCAS are all about, and they’re going to change emotional wellness.” The release of SCAT and SCAS also completes a four-part conceptual framework called the Self-Comforting Framework, which gives researchers and clinicians the means to assess the behaviors and mindsets that support emotional resilience, according to Arewa PUNCH. Innovations like SCAT and SCAS are both academically significant and urgently needed as mental health issues continue to increase on a global scale.
Dr. Obohwemu is a prominent figure in psychological science thanks to his expanding body of significant research.
