AlMoghrabi Nouran, Huijding Jorg, Franken Ingmar H A
Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Saudi Arabia.
Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry. 2018 Mar;58:36-42. doi: 10.1016/j.jbtep.2017.08.003. Epub 2017 Aug 14.
Cognitive theories of aggression propose that biased information processing is causally related to aggression. To test these ideas, the current study investigated the effects of a novel cognitive bias modification paradigm (CBM-I) designed to target interpretations associated with aggressive behavior.
Participants aged 18-33 years old were randomly assigned to either a single session of positive training (n = 40) aimed at increasing prosocial interpretations or negative training (n = 40) aimed at increasing hostile interpretations.
The results revealed that the positive training resulted in an increase in prosocial interpretations while the negative training seemed to have no effect on interpretations. Importantly, in the positive condition, a positive change in interpretations was related to lower anger and verbal aggression scores after the training. In this condition, participants also reported an increase in happiness. In the negative training no such effects were found. However, the better participants performed on the negative training, the more their interpretations were changed in a negative direction and the more aggression they showed on the behavioral aggression task.
Participants were healthy university students. Therefore, results should be confirmed within a clinical population.
These findings provide support for the idea that this novel CBM-I paradigm can be used to modify interpretations, and suggests that these interpretations are related to mood and aggressive behavior.
攻击行为的认知理论提出，有偏差的信息加工与攻击行为存在因果关系。为验证这些观点，本研究调查了一种旨在针对与攻击行为相关的解释的新型认知偏差修正范式（CBM-I）的效果。
将18至33岁的参与者随机分配到旨在增加亲社会解释的单次积极训练组（n = 40）或旨在增加敌意解释的消极训练组（n = 40）。
结果显示，积极训练导致亲社会解释增加，而消极训练似乎对解释没有影响。重要的是，在积极条件下，训练后解释的积极变化与较低的愤怒和言语攻击得分相关。在此条件下，参与者还报告幸福感增加。在消极训练中未发现此类效果。然而，参与者在消极训练中的表现越好，他们的解释在消极方向上的变化就越大，并且他们在行为攻击任务中表现出的攻击性就越强。
参与者为健康的大学生。因此，结果应在临床人群中得到证实。
这些发现为这种新型CBM-I范式可用于修正解释这一观点提供了支持，并表明这些解释与情绪和攻击行为有关。
