School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand.
PLoS One. 2019 Jan 25;14(1):e0211147. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0211147. eCollection 2019.
The current research examined the links between depressive symptomology and anxiety on the fading of affect associated with positive and negative autobiographical memories. Participants (N = 296) recalled and rated positive and negative events in terms of how pleasant or unpleasant they were at the time they occurred and at the time of event recollection. Multilevel mediation analyses identified evidence that higher levels of depressive symptoms were directly associated with lower affect fade for both negative and positive memories. Tests of indirect effects indicated that depressive symptoms were indirectly related to lower affect fade for negative (but not positive) autobiographical memories via the heightened tendency to think about negative (but not positive) memories. Anxiety was unrelated to affect fade both directly and indirectly. These results suggest that people higher in depressive symptoms retain more negative affect due to an increased likelihood of thinking about negative autobiographical events.
当前的研究考察了抑郁症状和焦虑与积极和消极自传体记忆相关的情感消退之间的联系。参与者（N=296）回忆并评价了积极和消极事件，根据它们发生时以及回忆时的愉快或不愉快程度进行评价。多层次中介分析确定了证据，表明较高水平的抑郁症状与消极和积极记忆的情感消退较低直接相关。间接效应检验表明，抑郁症状与消极自传体记忆的情感消退较低间接相关（但与积极自传体记忆无关），这是通过增强对消极（但不是积极）记忆的思考倾向。焦虑与情感消退直接和间接都没有关系。这些结果表明，抑郁症状较高的人由于更有可能思考消极的自传体事件，因此保留了更多的消极情绪。
