Department of Personality, Evaluation and Psychological Treatment, University of Malaga, Spain.
Scand J Psychol. 2013 Apr;54(2):166-72. doi: 10.1111/sjop.12026. Epub 2012 Dec 20.
Depressive rumination and trait meta-mood (emotional attention, emotional clarity and emotional repair) have been suggested as vulnerability factors leading to depression, but less is known about the associations among them. In this study, we examined the relationships between trait meta-mood, rumination and depressive symptomatology. Using structural equation analysis in a large sample of a non-clinical population we found a preliminary test of the role of trait meta-mood dimensions in rumination and depressive symptomatology. Results indicated that attention to feelings has two pathways in its relation with rumination and depressive mood. On the one hand, emotional attention was associated with emotional clarity, and emotional clarity with emotional repair, which was related to lower depressive symptomatology, in part, by reducing rumination. On the other hand, emotional attention was directly associated with ruminative thoughts which, in turn, were related to higher depressive mood. Findings are discussed in terms of the implications of beliefs about emotions in the treatment of depression.
抑郁反刍和特质元情绪（情绪注意、情绪清晰和情绪修复）被认为是导致抑郁的脆弱因素，但它们之间的关系知之甚少。在这项研究中，我们研究了特质元情绪、反刍和抑郁症状之间的关系。在一个非临床人群的大样本中，我们使用结构方程分析初步检验了特质元情绪维度在反刍和抑郁症状中的作用。结果表明，对情绪的关注在与反刍和抑郁情绪的关系中有两条途径。一方面，情绪注意与情绪清晰有关，情绪清晰与情绪修复有关，而情绪修复通过减少反刍与较低的抑郁症状有关。另一方面，情绪注意与沉思性思维直接相关，而沉思性思维又与更高的抑郁情绪有关。研究结果从情绪信念在抑郁症治疗中的意义方面进行了讨论。
