East M P, Watts F N
MRC Applied Psychology Unit, Cambridge, England.
Behav Res Ther. 1994 Nov;32(8):851-5. doi: 10.1016/0005-7967(94)90165-1.
This experiment investigates Borkovec's theory that the function of worry is to protect people from potentially distressing emotional imagery. The experiment builds on a previous one of Borkovec and Inz (Behaviour Research and Therapy, 28, 153-158, 1990) comparing the frequency of thoughts and images in imagery and relaxation. The present experiment confirms the previous finding that worry is associated with less imagery than relaxation, but shows that this is not distinctive to worry. Indeed, an additional control condition, 'present-oriented mentation', was associated with even less imagery than worry. The fact that other kinds of thinking are at least as effective as worry in suppressing emotional imagery indicates that this property of worry is not sufficient to explain its occurrence.
本实验探究了博尔科维奇的理论，即担忧的功能是保护人们免受潜在的痛苦情绪意象的影响。该实验基于博尔科维奇和因兹之前的一项研究（《行为研究与治疗》，第28卷，第153 - 158页，1990年），该研究比较了意象和放松过程中思维和意象的频率。本实验证实了之前的发现，即与放松相比，担忧与更少的意象相关，但表明这并非担忧所特有。事实上，另一个对照条件“当下导向的思维”与比担忧更少的意象相关。其他类型的思维在抑制情绪意象方面至少与担忧一样有效的这一事实表明，担忧的这一特性不足以解释其发生。
