Geraerts Elke, Merckelbach Harald, Jelicic Marko, Smeets Elke
Department of Experimental Psychology, Maastricht University, The Netherlands.
Behav Res Ther. 2006 Oct;44(10):1451-60. doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2005.11.001. Epub 2005 Dec 7.
The current experiment employed a thought suppression paradigm to investigate whether repressors (N=40) are more skilled in suppressing positive and anxious autobiographical thoughts than low anxious (N=40), high anxious (N=40), and defensive high anxious (N=40) individuals, both immediately and over a longer time period (i.e., 7 days). Regardless of suppression instructions, repressors reported during their lab visit fewer target thoughts for their most anxious events than participants in the other three groups. However, over a 7 days period, repressors showed the highest number of intrusive thoughts about their anxious autobiographical events. Thus, our results demonstrate that repressive coping might be adaptive in the short run, but counterproductive in the long run.
当前的实验采用了一种思想抑制范式，以研究压抑者（N = 40）在立即以及较长时间段（即7天）内抑制积极和焦虑的自传体思想方面，是否比低焦虑者（N = 40）、高焦虑者（N = 40）和防御性高焦虑者（N = 40）更有技巧。无论抑制指令如何，压抑者在实验室访问期间报告的关于其最焦虑事件的目标思想比其他三组参与者都少。然而，在7天的时间里，压抑者表现出关于其焦虑自传体事件的侵入性思想数量最多。因此，我们的结果表明，压抑性应对在短期内可能是适应性的，但从长远来看会适得其反。
