Mastikhina Liza, Dobson Keith
a Department of Clinical Psychology , University of Calgary , Calgary , Alberta , Canada.
Cogn Emot. 2017 Apr;31(3):625-631. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2015.1136270. Epub 2016 Jan 22.
The present study replicated Wells and Beevers [(2010). Biased attention and dysphoria: Manipulating selective attention reduces subsequent depressive symptoms. Cognition & Emotion, 24, 719-728] and examined the longitudinal effects of attentional retraining on symptoms of depression. Dysphoric undergraduate psychology students were randomly assigned into either a neutral or control training condition. Training was administered using a dot-probe task that presented participants with pairs of pictures (of sad and neutral content) that were followed by a probe that participants had to respond to. Training took place over four sessions during a two-week period, followed by a final follow-up session two weeks later. Mood was measured at baseline, post-training, and at follow-up. All participants showed a significant reduction in depressive symptoms throughout the study, F(1.7, 73.55) = 21.19, p < .001; but the attentional retraining did not demonstrate any advantage over the control condition. Results were inconsistent with those of Wells and Beevers [(2010). Biased attention and dysphoria: Manipulating selective attention reduces subsequent depressive symptoms. Cognition & Emotion, 24, 719-728]. Implications of the findings on research on attentional retraining in the context of depression are discussed.
本研究重复了韦尔斯和比弗斯（2010年）的研究，并考察了注意力再训练对抑郁症状的纵向影响。情绪不佳的本科心理学专业学生被随机分配到中性训练组或对照组。训练采用点探测任务进行，向参与者呈现成对的图片（悲伤和中性内容），随后是一个参与者必须做出反应的探测刺激。训练在两周内进行了四个阶段，两周后进行了最后一次随访。在基线、训练后和随访时测量情绪。在整个研究过程中，所有参与者的抑郁症状均显著减轻，F(1.7, 73.55) = 21.19，p <.001；但注意力再训练并未显示出比对照组有任何优势。研究结果与韦尔斯和比弗斯（2010年）的研究结果不一致。本文讨论了这些研究结果对抑郁症背景下注意力再训练研究的意义。
