Lin Yi-Jen, Wicker Frank W
Department of Early Childhood Care and Education, Central Taiwan University of Science and Technology, 11 Pu-tzu Lane, Taichung 406, Taiwan.
Behav Res Ther. 2007 Dec;45(12):2924-37. doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2007.08.004. Epub 2007 Aug 9.
This study compared the effects of suppression, focused-distraction, and concentration on controlling unwanted distressing thoughts, and examined how anxiety levels were associated with the use of each thought-control technique. In the study, college students were told to suppress thoughts about a distressing story, to suppress the same thoughts by focusing on an alternative distraction task, to simply concentrate on that alternative task, or to think about anything without restrictions for 6minutes. This initial period was followed by a "free-thinking" period to assess the delayed effect of thought-control techniques. The results indicated that focused-distraction and concentration led to fewer intrusions of target thoughts than suppression, and concentration in turn resulted in fewer target intrusions than focused-distraction during the initial period. Participants in the focused-distraction and concentration condition also tended to report lower anxiety during the initial period than those who were told to suppress thoughts.
本研究比较了抑制、专注分心和集中注意力对控制 unwanted distressing thoughts 的效果，并考察了焦虑水平与每种思维控制技术的使用之间的关联。在该研究中，大学生被要求抑制对一个令人痛苦的故事的想法，通过专注于一项替代的分心任务来抑制同样的想法，仅仅专注于那项替代任务，或者不受限制地思考任何事情，持续6分钟。这个初始阶段之后是一个“自由思考”阶段，以评估思维控制技术的延迟效果。结果表明，在初始阶段，专注分心和集中注意力比抑制导致的目标想法侵入更少，而且集中注意力又比专注分心导致的目标想法侵入更少。专注分心和集中注意力条件下的参与者在初始阶段也往往比那些被要求抑制想法的人报告的焦虑程度更低。
