Walker W Richard, Yancu Cecile N, Skowronski John J
Department of Psychological Sciences, Winston-Salem State University, USA.
Department of Behavioral Sciences, Winston-Salem State University, USA.
Adv Cogn Psychol. 2014 Sep 30;10(3):81-9. doi: 10.5709/acp-0159-0. eCollection 2014.
The affect associated with negative events fades faster than the affect associated with positive events (the Fading Affect Bias; the FAB). The research that we report examined the relation between trait anxiety and the FAB. Study 1 assessed anxiety using the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale; Studies 2 and 3 used the Beck Anxiety Inventory. Studies 1 and 2 used retrospective procedures to probe positive event memories and negative event memories while Study 3 used a diary procedure. The results of all 3 studies showed that increased anxiety was associated with both a lowered FAB and lower overall affect fading for both positive events and negative events. These results suggest that for people free of trait anxiety, the FAB reflects the operation of a healthy coping mechanism in autobiographical memory that is disrupted by trait anxiety.
与负面事件相关的情感比与正面事件相关的情感消退得更快（消退情感偏差；FAB）。我们所报告的研究考察了特质焦虑与FAB之间的关系。研究1使用抑郁、焦虑和压力量表评估焦虑；研究2和3使用贝克焦虑量表。研究1和2采用回顾性程序来探究正面事件记忆和负面事件记忆，而研究3采用日记程序。所有3项研究的结果都表明，焦虑增加与FAB降低以及正面事件和负面事件的总体情感消退降低有关。这些结果表明，对于没有特质焦虑的人来说。FAB反映了自传体记忆中一种健康应对机制的运作，而这种机制会被特质焦虑所破坏。
