Robichaud Melisa, Dugas Michel J
Department of Psychology, Concordia University, 7141 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Que., Canada H4B 1R6.
Behav Res Ther. 2005 Mar;43(3):403-12. doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2004.02.008.
Negative problem orientation, a dysfunctional set of attitudes related to problem-solving ability, has been implicated as a process variable in several psychological disorders, notably depression and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). The goal of the present study was two-fold: (1) to further examine the construct validity of a new measure of negative problem orientation, the negative problem orientation questionnaire (NPOQ), through its relationship to conceptually similar variables, and (2) to investigate the specificity of negative problem orientation to worry, the cardinal feature of GAD, compared to depression. The sample consisted of 148 university students who completed six questionnaires, the NPOQ and measures of worry, depression, pessimism, self-mastery, and neuroticism. Multiple hierarchical regressions revealed that when entered in the last step following demographic information and personality variables (pessimism, self-mastery, and neuroticism), the NPOQ accounted for 5.6% of the variance in worry scores compared to 1.6% of the variance in depression scores. It was concluded that the NPOQ shows evidence of construct validity, and that the process variable of negative problem orientation appears to have greater specificity to worry than depression. Implications for the understanding of worry and GAD are discussed.
消极问题取向是一组与解决问题能力相关的功能失调态度，在几种心理障碍中，尤其是抑郁症和广泛性焦虑症（GAD）中，它被视为一个过程变量。本研究的目的有两个：（1）通过与概念上相似的变量的关系，进一步检验一种新的消极问题取向测量方法——消极问题取向问卷（NPOQ）的结构效度；（2）与抑郁症相比，研究消极问题取向对广泛性焦虑症的主要特征——担忧的特异性。样本由148名大学生组成，他们完成了六份问卷，即NPOQ以及关于担忧、抑郁、悲观、自我掌控和神经质的测量。多重层次回归显示，在人口统计学信息和人格变量（悲观、自我掌控和神经质）之后的最后一步纳入时，NPOQ在担忧得分的方差中占5.6%，而在抑郁得分的方差中占1.6%。研究得出结论，NPOQ显示出结构效度的证据，并且消极问题取向的过程变量似乎对担忧的特异性大于对抑郁的特异性。讨论了对理解担忧和广泛性焦虑症的启示。
