Rumination and acceptance differentially modulate the scope of attention.

IF 3.4 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL

Emotion Pub Date : 2025-05-12 DOI:10.1037/emo0001540

Mor Ben Zaken Linn, Lihi Cohen, Noam Weinbach

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Abstract

Rumination, characterized by repetitive and intrusive thoughts about negative personal events, has been linked to a narrow attentional scope. Conversely, emotional acceptance, which involves fully experiencing emotions in a nonevaluative way, is theorized to broaden attention. However, empirical data that support the theoretical link between rumination, acceptance, and the attentional scope are scarce. The present study examined the effects of rumination and acceptance on local (narrow attention) versus global (broad attention) processing styles. Seventy-two healthy participants were asked to describe a distressing personal event. Then, participants implemented rumination or acceptance to cope with that event. Before and after the implementation phase, participants completed a global/local processing task. The results showed that rumination led to a pre- to postmanipulation increase in local interference (i.e., greater interference caused by details when attending to a whole figure) and a decrease in global interference (i.e., smaller interference caused by a whole figure while attending to the details). In contrast, implementing emotional acceptance led to a pre- to postmanipulation reduction in local interference, with no change in global interference. Post hoc analyses indicated that the effects of rumination and acceptance on processing style were not mediated by affective changes that resulted from implementing these strategies. The findings provide support for the role played by rumination in narrowing the attentional scope and partial support for the effect of acceptance on broadening attention. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

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反刍和接受对注意力范围的调节是不同的。

反刍，其特征是对消极的个人事件进行重复和侵入性的思考，与狭窄的注意力范围有关。相反，情感接受，包括以一种非评价的方式充分体验情感，理论上是为了扩大注意力。然而，支持反刍、接受和注意范围之间的理论联系的经验数据很少。本研究考察了反刍和接受对局部（狭义注意）和全局（广义注意）加工风格的影响。72名健康的参与者被要求描述一件令人痛苦的个人事件。然后，参与者通过反思或接受来应对这一事件。在实现阶段之前和之后，参与者完成了一个全局/本地处理任务。结果表明，反刍导致操作前后局部干扰增加（即，当关注整个图形时，细节引起的干扰更大），全局干扰减少（即，当关注细节时，整体图形引起的干扰更小）。相比之下，实施情绪接受导致操作前后局部干扰减少，而全局干扰没有变化。事后分析表明，反刍和接受对加工风格的影响不受实施这些策略所导致的情感变化的调节。研究结果支持反刍在缩小注意范围中的作用，部分支持接受在扩大注意范围中的作用。（PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA，版权所有）。

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Emotion PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL-

CiteScore

8.40

自引率

7.10%

发文量

325

审稿时长

8 weeks

期刊介绍： Emotion publishes significant contributions to the study of emotion from a wide range of theoretical traditions and research domains. The journal includes articles that advance knowledge and theory about all aspects of emotional processes, including reports of substantial empirical studies, scholarly reviews, and major theoretical articles. Submissions from all domains of emotion research are encouraged, including studies focusing on cultural, social, temperament and personality, cognitive, developmental, health, or biological variables that affect or are affected by emotional functioning. Both laboratory and field studies are appropriate for the journal, as are neuroimaging studies of emotional processes.