Kassel Jon D, Bornovalova Marina, Mehta Neera
Department of Psychology (MC 285), 1007 West Harrison Street, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607-7137, USA.
Behav Res Ther. 2007 May;45(5):939-50. doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2006.07.014. Epub 2006 Sep 28.
Negative mood regulation (NMR) expectancies, or the beliefs held by individuals that, when faced with various manifestations of stress and negative affect, they can successfully cope with such mood states, have proven to be a most useful construct in the context of better understanding self-regulatory processes. In the present prospective study, we examined the predictive utility of NMR expectancies with respect to its ability to predict residual change in both depressive and anxiety symptoms over an 8-week timeframe in a sample of 322 college students. Initial correlational analyses revealed that, as anticipated, NMR expectancies were negatively correlated with depressive and anxiety symptomatology, as well as with maladaptive coping style. Conversely, NMR expectancies were positively associated with self-reported adaptive coping. A series of hierarchical regression analyses revealed that, even when controlling for age, sex, baseline levels of affective distress (depression or anxiety), and coping styles, NMR expectancies predicted change in both depressive and anxiety symptomatology. Implications of the findings pertinent to theory building and testing are discussed.
消极情绪调节（NMR）预期，即个体所持有的信念，认为当面对压力和消极情绪的各种表现时，他们能够成功应对此类情绪状态，已被证明在更好地理解自我调节过程的背景下是一个非常有用的概念。在本前瞻性研究中，我们在322名大学生样本中，考察了NMR预期在预测8周时间内抑郁和焦虑症状残余变化方面的预测效用。初步相关分析表明，正如预期的那样，NMR预期与抑郁和焦虑症状学以及适应不良的应对方式呈负相关。相反，NMR预期与自我报告的适应性应对呈正相关。一系列层次回归分析表明，即使在控制了年龄、性别、情感困扰（抑郁或焦虑）的基线水平和应对方式之后，NMR预期仍能预测抑郁和焦虑症状学的变化。本文讨论了这些发现对理论构建和检验的意义。
