Bar-Sella Avigail, Richter Thalia, Zilcha-Mano Sigal, Okon-Singer Hadas
Department of Psychology, School of Psychological Sciences, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.
The Integrated Brain and Behavior Research Center (IBBR), University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.
Front Psychiatry. 2022 Feb 7;13:819143. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.819143. eCollection 2022.
Extensive knowledge and research indicate that interpretation bias is very common among individuals with sub-clinical and clinical levels of depression. Nevertheless, little is known about the role of social experiences in enhancing interpretation bias. Given the major relevance of social experiences in the context of depression, the present study investigated the role of potential interactions between social experiences and levels of depression symptoms in the interpretation of ambiguous information.
Seventy participants underwent a laboratory controlled manipulation either of social ostracism or of overinclusion. Participants completed a computerized task that measured both direct and indirect interpretation bias and reported their level of depression symptoms.
The findings show that ostracism enhanced interpretation bias when symptom levels were higher, while overinclusion did not. This interaction effect between social ostracism and symptom level was found both for direct and for indirect interpretation bias.
Whereas previous research showed the existence of interpretation bias among people with symptoms of depression, the present study expands previous knowledge by shedding light on the conditions under which interpretation bias emerges, suggesting that ostracism enhances negative interpretation of ambiguous information when levels of depression symptoms are higher.
广泛的知识和研究表明，在亚临床和临床抑郁水平的个体中，解释偏差非常普遍。然而，对于社会经历在增强解释偏差中的作用知之甚少。鉴于社会经历在抑郁背景下的重要相关性，本研究调查了社会经历与抑郁症状水平之间潜在的相互作用在对模糊信息的解释中的作用。
70名参与者接受了社会排斥或过度包容的实验室控制操作。参与者完成了一项计算机化任务，该任务测量了直接和间接解释偏差，并报告了他们的抑郁症状水平。
研究结果表明，当症状水平较高时，排斥会增强解释偏差，而过度包容则不会。社会排斥与症状水平之间的这种相互作用效应在直接和间接解释偏差中均有发现。
尽管先前的研究表明有抑郁症状的人存在解释偏差，但本研究通过揭示解释偏差出现的条件扩展了先前的知识，表明当抑郁症状水平较高时，排斥会增强对模糊信息的负面解释。
