Dynamics of Positive Emotion Regulation: Associations with Youth Depressive Symptoms
Dynamics of Positive Emotion Regulation: Associations with Youth Depressive Symptoms
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DOI：
10.1007/s10802-014-9916-3
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发表时间：
2015-04-01
影响因子：
3.6
通讯作者：
Bell, Debora J.
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作者：
Fussner, Lauren M.;Luebbe, Aaron M.;Bell, Debora J.
抑郁症通常被认为是一种情感调节受损的疾病，在积极和消极的情感系统中都存在缺陷。然而，在情绪调节赤字发生在青年，特别是关于积极情绪的调节，是相对未知的。目前的研究测试了广泛（感受和表达）和特定（上调和维持）积极情绪过程的缺陷是否与青年抑郁症状有关。青少年（n = 134; 65名女孩）在7至9年级完成了自我报告的抑郁症状的措施之前，参加了两个亲子互动的任务，奖励琐事任务和解决问题的冲突任务。在互动任务中，青少年的整体自我报告的经验和观察到的积极情感（PA）的表达进行了检查。奖励任务后，青年的能力，上调PA（PA反应）和维持PA，同时缓冲NA（PA持久性）进行了观察。结果表明，减少的经验和表达的PA与抑郁症状，但只有在一个背景下，引起负面情绪。PA反应和抑郁症状之间没有发现关联;然而，较短的PA持续时间与抑郁症状升高相关。抑郁症状较高的青少年似乎能够对奖励事件做出类似的反应，但在从积极任务过渡到消极任务时，未能维持PA并避开NA。
Depression is frequently considered a disorder of impaired affect regulation with deficits across both positive and negative affective systems. However, where deficits in emotion regulation occur in youth, specifically regarding regulation of positive emotions, is relatively unknown. The current study tested whether deficits in broad (felt and expressed) and specific (up-regulation and maintenance) positive emotion processes are associated with youth depressive symptoms. Adolescents (n = 134; 65 girls) in grades 7 to 9 completed a self-report measure of depressive symptoms prior to participating in two parent-child interactions tasks, a rewarding trivia task and a problem-solving conflict task. During the interaction tasks, adolescent's overall self-reported experience and observed expression of positive affect (PA) was examined. Following the reward task, youth's ability to up-regulate PA (PA response) and maintain PA while buffering against NA (PA persistence) was explored observationally. Results suggested that reduced experience and expression of PA was associated with depression symptoms, but only in a context that elicited negative emotions. No association was found between PA response and depression symptoms; however, shorter PA persistence was associated with elevated depressive symptoms. Youth higher in depressive symptoms appear able to respond similarly to rewarding events, but fail to maintain PA and ward off NA when transitioning from a positive to negative task.