Shifting away from negative inferences affects rumination and mood

IF 4.2 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL

Behaviour Research and Therapy Pub Date : 2024-07-14 DOI:10.1016/j.brat.2024.104604

Baruch Perlman , Gil Burg , Noa Avirbach-Shabat , Nilly Mor

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Abstract

In three studies, we examined the effect of shifting from a negative to a positive inference for a negative personal event, on mood, state rumination, and next-day inferences, and assessed whether trait brooding moderates these effects. Participants described a personal event and made two inferences for it. Studies 1 and 2 showed that instructing participants to shift from a negative to a positive inference, improved mood and decreased state rumination, compared to a no-shift condition. Lasting effects of this shift were observed on the next day, but not among high brooders. In Study 3, trait brooding was associated with less shifting from a negative to a positive inference, when participants were free to make any inference following a negative one. These findings highlight the benefits of shifting from negative to positive inferences for mood and state rumination. We also discuss the potential of shifting for brooders, who do not shift spontaneously but can do so with guidance, offering a potential intervention to enhance emotion regulation.

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摆脱负面推论会影响反刍和情绪

在三项研究中，我们考察了个人负面事件从消极推断转向积极推断对情绪、状态反刍和第二天推断的影响，并评估了特质忧郁是否会调节这些影响。参与者描述了一个个人事件，并对其做出了两种推断。研究 1 和研究 2 表明，与不转换条件相比，指导参与者从消极推断转向积极推断，可以改善情绪，减少状态反刍。这种转变的持久效果在第二天也能观察到，但在高耿耿于怀者中并不明显。在研究 3 中，当被试者在消极推断之后可以自由做出任何推断时，特质耿耿于怀与较少从消极推断转向积极推断有关。这些发现强调了从消极推断转向积极推断对情绪和状态反刍的益处。我们还讨论了对于那些不会自发转移但可以在指导下转移的癔症患者来说转移的潜力，这为加强情绪调节提供了一种潜在的干预措施。

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Behaviour Research and Therapy PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL-

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7.50

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7.30%

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148

期刊介绍： The major focus of Behaviour Research and Therapy is an experimental psychopathology approach to understanding emotional and behavioral disorders and their prevention and treatment, using cognitive, behavioral, and psychophysiological (including neural) methods and models. This includes laboratory-based experimental studies with healthy, at risk and subclinical individuals that inform clinical application as well as studies with clinically severe samples. The following types of submissions are encouraged: theoretical reviews of mechanisms that contribute to psychopathology and that offer new treatment targets; tests of novel, mechanistically focused psychological interventions, especially ones that include theory-driven or experimentally-derived predictors, moderators and mediators; and innovations in dissemination and implementation of evidence-based practices into clinical practice in psychology and associated fields, especially those that target underlying mechanisms or focus on novel approaches to treatment delivery. In addition to traditional psychological disorders, the scope of the journal includes behavioural medicine (e.g., chronic pain). The journal will not consider manuscripts dealing primarily with measurement, psychometric analyses, and personality assessment.