Jonathan F Bauer, Lena Schindler-Gmelch, Maurice Gerczuk, Björn Schuller, Matthias Berking
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本研究旨在评估是否可以通过系统性地引导抑郁症患者放大其声音中的信念表达，来增强他们援引抗抑郁自我陈述来应对抑郁情绪的效果。因此，我们招募了 N = 144 名参与者（48 名临床抑郁症患者、48 名亚临床抑郁症患者和 48 名非抑郁症患者）。参与者被随机分配到实验组或对照组。在不同的研究条件下，参与者先完成情绪诱导程序，然后朗读旨在减轻抑郁情绪的抗抑郁自我陈述。实验条件下的参与者会接受指导，以提高声音中信念的拟声表达；对照条件下的参与者则没有接受拟声表达指导。结果显示，与对照组相比，抑郁参与者在实验条件下的抑郁情绪下降更为明显。此外，结果表明对亚临床抑郁和非抑郁个体没有影响。最后，实验条件下参与者所表达的信念的增强与抑郁情绪的降低和抑郁症状严重程度的减轻有关。总之，我们的研究结果表明，在抑郁症患者进行抗抑郁自我陈述时，促进他们在声音中表达信念的拟声表达，是增强抑郁症认知干预疗效的一种很有前景的方法。
Prosody-focused feedback enhances the efficacy of anti-depressive self-statements in depressed individuals - A randomized controlled trial.
This study was aimed to evaluate whether the efficacy of invoking anti-depressive self-statements to cope with depressed mood can be enhanced for depressed individuals by systematically guiding them to amplify the expression of conviction in their voice. Accordingly, we recruited N = 144 participants (48 clinically depressed individuals, 48 sub-clinically depressed individuals, and 48 non-depressed individuals). Participants were randomly assigned to an experimental or control condition. Across study conditions, participants completed a mood induction procedure, then read aloud scripted anti-depressive self-statements designed to reduce depressed mood. Participants in the experimental condition received instructions to heighten the prosodic expression of conviction in their voice; participants in the control condition received no prosodic expression instructions. Results showed that depressed participants achieved a more pronounced decrease of depressed mood in the experimental condition than in the control condition. Further, the results indicated no effects in sub-clinically depressed and non-depressed individuals. Finally, heightened conviction expressed by participants in the experimental condition was associated with lower depressed mood and diminished depressive symptom severity. Overall, our findings suggest that fostering the prosodic expression of conviction in depressed persons' voices, while they vocalize anti-depressive self-statements, represents a promising method for augmenting the efficacy of cognitive interventions for depression.
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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.
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