Pasyugina Irina, Koval Peter, De Leersnyder Jozefien, Mesquita Batja, Kuppens Peter
a Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences , KU Leuven , Leuven , Belgium.
Cogn Emot. 2015;29(4):736-46. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2014.932755. Epub 2014 Jun 30.
Rumination--repetitively thinking about one's emotional state, its causes and consequences--exacerbates negative mood and plays an important role in the aetiology and maintenance of depression. Yet, it is unclear whether increased vulnerability to depression is associated with simply how much a person ruminates, or the short-term impact rumination has on a person's negative mood. In the current study, we distinguish between the level versus the impact of rumination, and we examine how each uniquely predicts changes in depressive symptoms over time in an undergraduate sample. Using experience sampling, we assessed students' (N = 101) subjective experiences of positive and negative affect and their use of rumination and distraction in daily life for seven days. Participants also reported their depressive symptoms before and after the experience sampling. Increases in depressive symptoms over the week were predicted by how much people ruminated, but not by its impact on negative mood.
沉思——反复思考自己的情绪状态、其成因及后果——会加剧负面情绪，且在抑郁症的病因和维持中起着重要作用。然而，尚不清楚易患抑郁症是否仅仅与一个人的沉思量有关，还是与沉思对一个人负面情绪的短期影响有关。在当前的研究中，我们区分了沉思的程度与影响，并考察了它们各自如何独特地预测本科生样本中抑郁症状随时间的变化。通过经验抽样，我们评估了101名学生在七天内日常生活中积极和消极情绪的主观体验以及他们使用沉思和分心的情况。参与者还报告了经验抽样前后的抑郁症状。一周内抑郁症状的增加是由人们沉思的程度预测的，而不是由其对负面情绪的影响预测的。
