a Department of Psychology , University of Cologne , Richard-Strauss-Straße 2, 50931 Köln , Germany.
b Department of Psychology , University of Würzburg , Würzburg , Germany.
Cogn Emot. 2019 Sep;33(6):1239-1248. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2018.1552120. Epub 2018 Dec 2.
Depression is marked by rigid thinking and the inability to generate different and more positive views on the self. The current study conceptualises this a perspective-taking deficit, which is defined as a deficit in the ability to overcome one's egocentrism. Previous research has demonstrated that individuals with depression are impaired in Theory of Mind reasoning and empathy - two social cognitions that involve cognitive and affective perspective-taking. Here, it was investigated whether these deficits generalise to visuo-spatial perspective-taking. To test this, a convenience sample ( = 268; = 62 high depressive symptoms; = 206 healthy control participants) completed a test-battery including measures of cognitive and visuo-spatial perspective-taking and closely matched cognitive and visuo-spatial control tasks. The results showed that individuals exhibiting high levels of depressive symptoms were specifically impaired on both perspective-taking tasks but performed equally well on the control tasks. Interventions to combat rigid thinking in depression are discussed.
抑郁的特点是思维僵化，无法对自己产生不同的、更积极的看法。本研究将其概念化为观点采择缺陷，即克服自我中心主义的能力缺陷。先前的研究表明，抑郁个体在心理理论推理和同理心方面存在障碍，这两种社会认知涉及认知和情感的观点采择。在这里，研究人员调查了这些缺陷是否会泛化到视空间观点采择。为了检验这一点，研究人员使用方便样本（ = 268; = 62 名高抑郁症状； = 206 名健康对照组参与者）完成了一个测试组合，其中包括认知和视空间观点采择的测量以及密切匹配的认知和视空间控制任务。结果表明，表现出高抑郁症状的个体在两种观点采择任务上都有明显的障碍，但在控制任务上的表现相同。讨论了针对抑郁僵化思维的干预措施。
