Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China.
Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality, Ministry of Education, Chongqing, China.
Hum Brain Mapp. 2022 Apr 1;43(5):1738-1748. doi: 10.1002/hbm.25754. Epub 2021 Dec 24.
Procrastination, which is defined as delaying an intended course of action despite negative outcomes, is demonstrated to have a deal with negative emotion including trait anxiety. Although highly anxious individuals showed impoverished control ability, no studies have indicated the role of self-control in the relationship between trait anxiety and procrastination, and its neural correlates. To this end, we used the sliding window method to calculate the temporal deviation of dynamic functional connectivity (FC) in 312 healthy participants who underwent the resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanning. In line with our hypothesis, higher trait anxiety is linked to more procrastination via poorer self-control. Besides, the dynamic FC analyses showed that trait anxiety was positively correlated with dynamic FC variability in hippocampus-prefrontal cortex (HPC-PFC) pathways, including left rostral hippocampus-left superior frontal gyrus (left rHPC-left SFG), and left rHPC-right middle frontal gyrus (left rHPC--MFG). Furthermore, the structural equation modeling (SEM) uncovered a mediated role of self-control in the association between the anxiety-specific brain connectivity and procrastination. These findings suggest that the HPC-PFC pathways may reflect impoverished regulatory ability over the negative thoughts for anxious individuals, and thereby incurs more procrastination, which enhances our understanding of how trait anxiety links to procrastination.
拖延是指尽管存在负面后果,但仍延迟预期的行动过程,它与包括特质焦虑在内的负面情绪有关。尽管高度焦虑的个体表现出控制能力较差,但尚无研究表明自我控制在特质焦虑与拖延之间的关系及其神经相关性中的作用。为此,我们使用滑动窗口方法计算了 312 名健康参与者的动态功能连接(FC)的时间偏差,这些参与者接受了静息态功能磁共振成像(fMRI)扫描。与我们的假设一致,较高的特质焦虑通过较差的自我控制与更多的拖延有关。此外,动态 FC 分析表明,特质焦虑与海马-前额叶皮质(HPC-PFC)通路中的动态 FC 可变性呈正相关,包括左侧额回-左侧额上回(left rHPC-left SFG)和左侧额回-右侧额中回(left rHPC-right MFG)。此外,结构方程模型(SEM)揭示了自我控制在焦虑特异性脑连接与拖延之间的关联中的中介作用。这些发现表明,HPC-PFC 通路可能反映了焦虑个体对负面思想的调节能力较差,从而导致更多的拖延,从而加深了我们对特质焦虑与拖延之间关系的理解。