Southworth Felicity, Grafton Ben, MacLeod Colin, Watkins Ed
a Study of Maladaptive to Adaptive Repetitive Thought (SMART) Lab , University of Exeter , Exeter , UK.
b Centre for the Advancement of Research on Emotion, School of Psychology , University of Western Australia , Crawley , Australia.
Cogn Emot. 2017 Apr;31(3):422-434. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2015.1124843. Epub 2016 Jan 4.
Information processing accounts of rumination propose that impaired attentional disengagement from negative information may underpin heightened disposition to experience ruminative brooding in response to negative mood. The present study examined the relationship between individual differences in ruminative disposition and selective attention, using a paradigm capable of distinguishing between biases in the engagement and disengagement of attention. Results showed that higher dispositional ruminative brooding, as measured by both the brooding subscale of the RRS and an in-vivo assessment of ruminative disposition, was associated with greater relative impairment disengaging attention from negative compared to positive stimuli. These findings thus provide support for the "impaired disengagement" account of ruminative brooding.
对沉思的信息处理理论认为，注意力从负面信息上的脱离受损可能是导致个体在面对负面情绪时更容易陷入沉思的潜在原因。本研究使用一种能够区分注意力投入和脱离偏差的范式，检验了沉思倾向的个体差异与选择性注意之间的关系。结果显示，无论是通过反刍反应量表（RRS）的沉思子量表还是对沉思倾向的现场评估来衡量，较高的特质性沉思都与从负面刺激而非正面刺激中脱离注意力的相对更大损害有关。因此，这些发现为沉思的“脱离受损”理论提供了支持。
