State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning & IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
Beijing Key Lab of Applied Experimental Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
Cogn Emot. 2021 Sep;35(6):1136-1149. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2021.1929854. Epub 2021 May 19.
This research investigated the effect of mood on self-reported effort in trying to focus back from mind wandering to ongoing things. We conducted three studies (one correlational and two experimental studies). Study 1 served as a correlational demonstration (questionnaires) of the negative relations between focus back effort and negative mood and between mind wandering and focus back effort at the trait level. Furthermore, a self-reported measure of focus back effort was developed to examine the effect of mood inductions on the ratings of focus back effort in the laboratory (Study 2) and daily life (Study 3). The findings of Studies 2 and 3 revealed that both in the laboratory and in daily life, participants in a negative mood reported lower levels of focus back effort rating than those in a positive mood. Thus, moods modulated mind wandering and an individual's effort in trying to focus back to some extent. Future work should account for the role of moods in mind wandering or focus back episodes.
本研究调查了情绪对从思维漫游中重新集中注意力回到当前任务时自我报告的努力程度的影响。我们进行了三项研究（一项相关研究和两项实验研究）。研究 1 作为相关性研究（问卷调查），证明了在特质水平上，重新集中注意力的努力与负面情绪之间以及思维漫游与重新集中注意力的努力之间存在负相关关系。此外，还开发了一种自我报告的重新集中注意力的努力程度衡量标准，以检验情绪诱发对实验室（研究 2）和日常生活（研究 3）中重新集中注意力的努力程度评分的影响。研究 2 和研究 3 的结果表明，无论是在实验室还是在日常生活中，处于消极情绪的参与者报告的重新集中注意力的努力程度评分均低于处于积极情绪的参与者。因此，情绪在一定程度上调节了思维漫游和个体重新集中注意力的努力程度。未来的研究应该考虑到情绪在思维漫游或重新集中注意力的作用。
