The predictors of thought suppression in young and old adults: Effects of rumination, anxiety, and other variables
The predictors of thought suppression in young and old adults: Effects of rumination, anxiety, and other variables
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DOI：
10.1016/j.paid.2006.09.016
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发表时间：
2007-04-01
影响因子：
4.3
通讯作者：
Kornbrot, Diana E.
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作者：
Erskine, James A. K.;Kvavilashvili, Lia;Kornbrot, Diana E.
白色熊抑制量表（WBSI）评估的在日常生活中使用思维抑制的倾向与几个精神病理学和人格因素有关。然而，以前的研究主要调查了一组有限的精神病理学因素及其与年轻人使用思想抑制的关系。事实上，人们对老年人的思维抑制和精神病理学之间的关系一无所知。本研究检查了各种各样的变量，这些变量在理论上和经验上与思想抑制有关，并使用回归模型来预测在日常生活中抑制思想的趋势，在年轻（平均年龄20岁）和老年（平均年龄73岁）成人样本中。结果表明，在这两个样本中，思维抑制的使用是最好的预测反刍和特质焦虑。此外，年轻参与者的WBSI评分显著高于老年人，但当控制老年人的低水平焦虑和反刍时，这种年龄差异消失了。(c)2006爱思唯尔有限公司保留所有权利。
The tendency to use thought suppression in everyday life as assessed by the White Bear Suppression Inventory (WBSI) has been related to several psychopathological and personality factors. However, previous research has primarily investigated a limited set of psychopathological factors and their relation to the use of thought suppression in younger adults only. Virtually nothing is known about the relation between thought suppression and psychopathology in older adults. The present study examined a wide variety of variables that have been theoretically and empirically linked to thought suppression and used regression models to predict the tendency to suppress thoughts in everyday life, in both younger (mean age 20) and older (mean age 73) adult samples. Results demonstrated that in both samples, the use of thought suppression was best predicted by rumination and trait anxiety. In addition, young participants had significantly higher WBSI scores than older adults but this age difference disappeared when controlling for low levels of anxiety and rumination in older adults. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.