Fan Jialin, Li Wenjing, Lin Mingping, Li Xinqi, Deng Xinmei
School of Psychology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China.
The Shenzhen Humanities and Social Sciences Key Research Bases of the Center for Mental Health, Shenzhen, China.
Front Behav Neurosci. 2023 May 25;17:1175067. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2023.1175067. eCollection 2023.
Fatigue is a common experience in everyday life. People who experience fatigue will have more intense negative emotions, and at the same time, their positive emotions will decrease, impairing the individual's emotional processing ability. In previous research, mindfulness meditation reduces the intensity of negative emotional stimuli. However, if individuals continue to be affected by negative emotions when they are fatigued, it is unclear whether mindfulness can buffer the negative association between fatigue and emotions. This study examined whether mindfulness meditation affects the association between fatigue and emotions, using event-related potentials (ERPs). One hundred and forty-five participants completed the experiment. They were randomly assigned to the Mindfulness or Non-mindfulness group; and they were presented with positive, neutral, or negative pictures in an emotional processing task before and after mindfulness or rest. Late positive potential (LPP) is an important indicator of emotional stimuli perceived by individuals, and positive or negative pictures can induce an increase in LPP amplitude more than neutral pictures. Our findings suggest that fatigue significantly affected individuals' LPP amplitudes in the early, mid, and late windows in the Non-mindfulness group, specifically, the more fatigued individuals had lower LPP amplitudes, but not in the Mindfulness group. These results suggest that in a state of fatigue, mindful individuals are able to maintain responsiveness to emotional stimuli by maintaining LPP amplitude. Our study has demonstrated that mindfulness meditation, to some extent, offsets the negative association of fatigue with the neural activation of emotions.
疲劳是日常生活中的常见体验。经历疲劳的人会有更强烈的负面情绪,同时他们的积极情绪会减少,从而损害个体的情绪处理能力。在先前的研究中,正念冥想可降低负面情绪刺激的强度。然而,如果个体在疲劳时持续受到负面情绪的影响,正念是否能够缓冲疲劳与情绪之间的负相关尚不清楚。本研究使用事件相关电位(ERP)来检验正念冥想是否会影响疲劳与情绪之间的关联。145名参与者完成了该实验。他们被随机分配到正念组或非正念组;在进行正念或休息前后,他们在一项情绪处理任务中观看积极、中性或消极图片。晚期正电位(LPP)是个体感知情绪刺激的一个重要指标,与中性图片相比,积极或消极图片能诱发LPP波幅增加。我们的研究结果表明,在非正念组中,疲劳在早期、中期和晚期窗口显著影响个体的LPP波幅,具体而言,疲劳程度越高的个体LPP波幅越低,但在正念组中并非如此。这些结果表明,在疲劳状态下,正念个体能够通过维持LPP波幅来保持对情绪刺激的反应能力。我们的研究表明,正念冥想在一定程度上抵消了疲劳与情绪神经激活之间的负相关。