Edith Cowan University, Psychology Department, Joondalup, West Australia; Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom.
Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, United States.
Psychiatry Res. 2017 Oct;256:6-12. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2017.06.002. Epub 2017 Jun 3.
Research has implicated motivation and goal regulation in susceptibility to mood disorders. We studied for the first time key facets of motivation and goal regulation concurrently in relation to affective symptoms. The cross-national sample comprised 510 university students from the United States (n = 279) and United Kingdom (n = 231). Participants completed self-report measures of motivation, conditional goal setting, urgency, depression, anxiety, and mania risk. Structural Equation Modeling results found that behavioral activation system scores correlated negatively with depression and positively with mania risk, but were unrelated to anxiety. High conditional goal setting correlated uniquely with higher depression but not to anxiety or mania risk. Urgency correlated with higher anxiety, depression, and mania risk. Behavioral inhibition system scores correlated negatively with mania risk but unexpectedly did not correlate with anxiety in the multivariate model. The behavioral activation, behavioral inhibition, conditional goal setting, and urgency results showed shared and distinct patterns of relationships with depression, anxiety and mania risk. Our findings indicate unique and common risk vulnerabilities in depressive, anxious, and manic syndromes and extend an integrative knowledge of these syndromes in relation to goal regulation.
研究表明，动机和目标调节与情绪障碍的易感性有关。我们首次同时研究了动机和目标调节的关键方面，以探讨其与情感症状的关系。该跨国样本包括来自美国（n=279）和英国（n=231）的 510 名大学生。参与者完成了关于动机、条件目标设定、紧迫感、抑郁、焦虑和躁狂风险的自我报告量表。结构方程模型结果发现，行为激活系统得分与抑郁呈负相关，与躁狂风险呈正相关，但与焦虑无关。高条件目标设定与较高的抑郁相关，但与焦虑或躁狂风险无关。紧迫感与较高的焦虑、抑郁和躁狂风险相关。行为抑制系统得分与躁狂风险呈负相关，但在多元模型中与焦虑无关。行为激活、行为抑制、条件目标设定和紧迫感的结果显示出与抑郁、焦虑和躁狂风险的独特和共同的关系模式。我们的发现表明，在抑郁、焦虑和躁狂综合征中存在独特和共同的风险脆弱性，并扩展了这些综合征与目标调节的综合知识。
