Connolly Samantha L, Abramson Lyn Y, Alloy Lauren B
a Department of Psychology , Temple University , Philadelphia , PA , USA.
b Department of Psychology , University of Wisconsin-Madison , Madison , WI , USA.
Cogn Emot. 2016;30(3):550-60. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2015.1010488. Epub 2015 Feb 24.
Negative information processing biases have been hypothesised to serve as precursors for the development of depression. The current study examined negative self-referent information processing and depressive symptoms in a community sample of adolescents (N = 291, Mage at baseline = 12.34 ± 0.61, 53% female, 47.4% African-American, 49.5% Caucasian and 3.1% Biracial). Participants completed a computerised self-referent encoding task (SRET) and a measure of depressive symptoms at baseline and completed an additional measure of depressive symptoms nine months later. Several negative information processing biases on the SRET were associated with concurrent depressive symptoms and predicted increases in depressive symptoms at follow-up. Findings partially support the hypothesis that negative information processing biases are associated with depressive symptoms in a nonclinical sample of adolescents, and provide preliminary evidence that these biases prospectively predict increases in depressive symptoms.
消极信息加工偏差被假设为抑郁症发展的先兆。本研究在一个青少年社区样本（N = 291，基线时的年龄中位数 = 12.34 ± 0.61，53%为女性，47.4%为非裔美国人，49.5%为白种人，3.1%为混血儿）中考察了消极自我参照信息加工与抑郁症状。参与者在基线时完成了一项计算机化自我参照编码任务（SRET）和一项抑郁症状测量，并在九个月后完成了另一项抑郁症状测量。SRET上的几种消极信息加工偏差与同时期的抑郁症状相关，并预测随访时抑郁症状会增加。研究结果部分支持了消极信息加工偏差与青少年非临床样本中的抑郁症状相关这一假设，并提供了初步证据表明这些偏差可前瞻性地预测抑郁症状的增加。
