Institute of Work and Organizational Psychology, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
Stress Health. 2019 Dec;35(5):642-649. doi: 10.1002/smi.2897. Epub 2019 Sep 13.
The aim of this 188-participant study (65% female; mean age = 40.31) was to examine whether burnout and depression are associated with similar interpretation biases in the processing of emotional information. Burnout symptoms were assessed with the Maslach Burnout Inventory-General Survey and depressive symptoms with the 9-item depression module of the Patient Health Questionnaire. Interpretation bias toward emotional information was examined using an amended version of the Word-Sentence Association Paradigm (WSAP). In the WSAP, participants are asked to decide whether emotionally-valenced words are related to ambiguous sentences. Burnout and depression were each associated with a higher endorsement of negative interpretations and a higher ratio of negative interpretations to positive interpretations. Negative word endorsement and positive word endorsement interacted in such a way that negative word endorsement was predictive of burnout and depression only when positive word endorsement levels were relatively low. Our findings suggest that burnout and depression are associated with similar alterations in the interpretation of ambiguous information. This study supports the view that burned out individuals perceive the world with "depressive glasses." Cognitive bias modification techniques employed in the treatment of depressive conditions may constitute relevant therapeutic options for "burned out" individuals.
本研究共有 188 名参与者（65%为女性；平均年龄=40.31 岁），旨在探究倦怠和抑郁是否与情绪信息处理中类似的解释偏差有关。倦怠症状采用 Maslach 倦怠量表通用调查进行评估，抑郁症状采用患者健康问卷的 9 项抑郁模块进行评估。采用修改后的词汇-句子联想范式（WSAP）来检查对情绪信息的解释偏差。在 WSAP 中，要求参与者判断情感词汇是否与模糊句子有关。倦怠和抑郁都与更高的负面解释的认可率和负面解释与正面解释的比率更高有关。负字认可和正字认可之间存在相互作用，只有当正字认可水平相对较低时，负字认可才是倦怠和抑郁的预测因素。我们的研究结果表明，倦怠和抑郁与模糊信息的解释相似变化有关。这项研究支持这样一种观点，即倦怠的个体以“抑郁的眼镜”来看待世界。在治疗抑郁症状中使用的认知偏差修正技术可能是“倦怠”个体的相关治疗选择。
