Bjork J M, Dougherty D M, Moeller F G
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas-Houston 77030, USA.
Psychiatry Res. 1997 Mar 3;69(1):33-8. doi: 10.1016/s0165-1781(96)03025-9.
Aggression and depressive symptoms have been linked using self-rating scales as measures of aggression. In order to study this relationship using an objective measure of aggression, we studied normal controls (42 women and 23 men) with the Point Subtraction Aggression Paradigm (PSAP) and the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). There was a significant positive correlation (r = 0.442, P = 0.003) between the level of aggressive responding on the PSAP and the level of depressive symptoms on the BDI in women but not in men (r = 0.064, P = 0.773). This study provides some evidence of a link between aggressive behavior and depressive symptoms in a non-clinical population, possibly due to a common neurochemical etiology.
攻击行为与抑郁症状通过使用自评量表作为攻击行为的测量方法而被联系起来。为了使用客观的攻击行为测量方法来研究这种关系，我们用点减法攻击范式（PSAP）和贝克抑郁量表（BDI）对正常对照组（42名女性和23名男性）进行了研究。在PSAP上的攻击反应水平与BDI上的抑郁症状水平之间，女性存在显著正相关（r = 0.442，P = 0.003），而男性则不然（r = 0.064，P = 0.773）。这项研究提供了一些证据，表明在非临床人群中攻击行为与抑郁症状之间存在联系，这可能归因于共同的神经化学病因。
