Hay Aleena C, Sheppes Gal, Gross James J, Gruber June
Department of Psychology, Yale University.
The School of Psychological Sciences, Tel Aviv University.
Emotion. 2015 Apr;15(2):139-45. doi: 10.1037/emo0000024. Epub 2014 Oct 13.
Individuals with bipolar disorder experience emotion regulation difficulties, even during remission, but are able to effectively employ emotion regulation strategies when instructed. We hypothesized that this puzzling discrepancy might be due to their maladaptive emotion regulation choices. To test this hypothesis, we used a previously validated paradigm (Sheppes, Scheibe, Suri, & Gross, 2011; Sheppes et al., 2014), and asked remitted individuals with bipolar I disorder (n = 25) and healthy individuals (n = 26) to view standardized positive and negative images of high and low intensity, and choose reappraisal or distraction to decrease their emotion intensity. Replicating and extending prior results, participants across both groups showed a pattern of choosing distraction more for high versus low intensity positive and negative images, but no between-groups differences were evident. These results suggest that emotion regulation choice patterns may be robust across samples, and add to growing evidence that several basic emotion regulation elements may remain intact in bipolar disorder.
双相情感障碍患者即使在病情缓解期也存在情绪调节困难，但在得到指示时能够有效地运用情绪调节策略。我们推测，这种令人困惑的差异可能是由于他们适应不良的情绪调节选择所致。为了验证这一假设，我们采用了先前经过验证的范式（Sheppes、Scheibe、Suri和Gross，2011年；Sheppes等人，2014年），要求25名缓解期的双相I型障碍患者和26名健康个体观看标准化的高强度和低强度正负性图像，并选择重新评价或分心来降低他们的情绪强度。重复并扩展先前的结果，两组参与者都表现出一种模式，即对于高强度与低强度的正负性图像，更多地选择分心，但两组之间没有明显差异。这些结果表明，情绪调节选择模式在不同样本中可能是稳健的，并进一步证明了越来越多的证据表明，双相情感障碍中一些基本的情绪调节要素可能保持完好。
