Yamashita Yuko, Yamamoto Tetsuya
Mutsumi Hospital, Tokushima, Japan.
Graduate School of Technology, Industrial and Social Sciences, Tokushima University, Tokushima, Japan.
Front Psychol. 2021 Nov 11;12:535980. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.535980. eCollection 2021.
Emotional contagion is a phenomenon by which an individual's emotions directly trigger similar emotions in others. We explored the possibility that perceiving others' emotional facial expressions affect mood in people with subthreshold depression (sD). Around 49 participants were divided into the following four groups: participants with no depression (ND) presented with happy faces; ND participants presented with sad faces; sD participants presented with happy faces; and sD participants presented with sad faces. Participants were asked to answer an inventory about their emotional states before and after viewing the emotional faces to investigate the influence of emotional contagion on their mood. Regardless of depressive tendency, the groups presented with happy faces exhibited a slight increase in the happy mood score and a decrease in the sad mood score. The groups presented with sad faces exhibited an increased sad mood score and a decreased happy mood score. These results demonstrate that emotional contagion affects the mood in people with sD, as well as in individuals with ND. These results indicate that emotional contagion could relieve depressive moods in people with sD. It demonstrates the importance of the emotional facial expressions of those around people with sD such as family and friends from the viewpoint of emotional contagion.
情绪感染是一种个体的情绪直接引发他人产生类似情绪的现象。我们探讨了感知他人的情绪性面部表情是否会影响阈下抑郁症（sD）患者情绪的可能性。约49名参与者被分为以下四组：向无抑郁症（ND）的参与者展示笑脸；向ND参与者展示悲伤的脸；向sD参与者展示笑脸；向sD参与者展示悲伤的脸。要求参与者在观看情绪性面部表情之前和之后回答一份关于他们情绪状态的问卷，以调查情绪感染对其情绪的影响。无论抑郁倾向如何，看到笑脸的组在快乐情绪得分上略有增加，悲伤情绪得分下降。看到悲伤面孔的组悲伤情绪得分增加，快乐情绪得分下降。这些结果表明，情绪感染会影响sD患者以及ND个体的情绪。这些结果表明，情绪感染可以缓解sD患者的抑郁情绪。从情绪感染的角度来看，这证明了sD患者周围的人（如家人和朋友）的情绪性面部表情的重要性。
