Kross Ethan, Ayduk Ozlem
Columbia University, USA.
Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2008 Jul;34(7):924-38. doi: 10.1177/0146167208315938. Epub 2008 May 9.
Two studies examined the psychological processes that facilitate adaptive emotional analysis. In Study 1, participants recalled a depression experience and then analyzed their feelings from either a self-immersed (immersed-analysis) or self-distanced (distanced-analysis) perspective. Participants in the distanced-analysis group focused less on recounting their experience and more on reconstruing it, which in turn led to lower levels of depressed affect. Furthermore, comparisons to a distraction group indicated that distanced-analysis was as effective as distraction in reducing depressed affect relative to the immersed-analysis group. Study 2 replicated these findings and showed that both 1 day and 7 days after the experimental manipulations, participants in the distanced-analysis group remained buffered against depressed affect and reported experiencing fewer recurring thoughts about their depression experience over time compared to both the immersed-analysis and distraction groups.
两项研究考察了促进适应性情绪分析的心理过程。在研究1中，参与者回忆一段抑郁经历，然后从自我沉浸（沉浸式分析）或自我疏离（疏离式分析）的角度分析自己的感受。疏离式分析组的参与者较少关注叙述自己的经历，而更多地关注重新解读它，这反过来又导致较低水平的抑郁情绪。此外，与分心组的比较表明，相对于沉浸式分析组，疏离式分析在减少抑郁情绪方面与分心一样有效。研究2重复了这些发现，并表明在实验操作后的1天和7天，疏离式分析组的参与者相对于沉浸式分析组和分心组，仍然能够抵御抑郁情绪，并且随着时间的推移，报告称对自己抑郁经历的反复思考较少。
