Radenhausen R A, Anker J M
Northern Kentucky Comprehensive Care Center, Covington, KY 41011.
Percept Mot Skills. 1988 Jun;66(3):855-60. doi: 10.2466/pms.1988.66.3.855.
The relationship between depressed mood, reasoning and perceptual performance was examined with 57 undergraduate volunteers. To intensify its effect, Velten's 1968 mood induction procedure was modified by having subjects hear a prerecording of each mood statement prior to saying it themselves. Also, midway through the experiment subjects completed an abbreviated mood induction to ensure continuation of the appropriate mood. Ratings of subjects' mood on a 13-point Likert scale before and after mood induction indicated the mood induction was effective. Subjects completed the reasoning measure of 48 syllogisms, and the perceptual measure involving identification of positive, negative, or neutral stimulus words presented tachistoscopically. "Depressed" individuals showed poorer reasoning performance of marginal significance than "elated" subjects. Mood induction did not appear to affect perceptual performance. Results are discussed in terms of the research on reasoning deficits in depression.
通过57名本科志愿者对抑郁情绪、推理和感知表现之间的关系进行了研究。为增强其效果，对1968年韦尔滕的情绪诱导程序进行了修改，让受试者在自己说出每条情绪陈述之前先听一段预录内容。此外，在实验进行到一半时，受试者完成了一次简化的情绪诱导，以确保适当情绪的持续。在情绪诱导前后，用13点李克特量表对受试者的情绪进行评分，结果表明情绪诱导是有效的。受试者完成了48个三段论的推理测试，以及涉及对通过速示器呈现的积极、消极或中性刺激词进行识别的感知测试。“抑郁”个体的推理表现比“兴高采烈”的受试者略差，具有边缘显著性。情绪诱导似乎并未影响感知表现。研究结果将根据对抑郁症推理缺陷的研究进行讨论。
