Department of Psychology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Conscious Cogn. 2022 Mar;99:103288. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2022.103288. Epub 2022 Feb 10.
Here we examined the association between mind wandering, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptomology, and self-control. In a large undergraduate sample (N = 5,387), we assessed trait-levels of spontaneous and deliberate mind wandering, self-control, and PTSD symptomology. Results indicated that, while PTSD symptomology was uniquely positively associated with spontaneous mind wandering, it was negatively associated with deliberate mind wandering and self-control. These findings suggest that the mechanism(s) underlying everyday mind wandering may also underlie PTSD symptomology and traumatic intrusions. Moreover, the unique negative association between PTSD symptomatology and self-control suggests that PTSD is characterized not only by impairments in inhibiting unwanted thoughts (as indexed by mind wandering), but also by impairments in inhibiting other unwanted behaviors.
在这里，我们研究了心流与创伤后应激障碍（PTSD）症状和自我控制之间的关系。在一个大型的本科生样本中（N=5387），我们评估了自发性和故意心流、自我控制和 PTSD 症状的特质水平。结果表明，虽然 PTSD 症状与自发性心流呈独特的正相关，但与故意心流和自我控制呈负相关。这些发现表明，日常心流的潜在机制也可能与 PTSD 症状和创伤性闯入有关。此外，PTSD 症状与自我控制之间独特的负相关表明，PTSD 的特征不仅是抑制不想要的想法（如心流所反映的）受损，而且还包括抑制其他不想要的行为受损。
