Emotional Inertia Prospectively Predicts the Onset of Depressive Disorder in Adolescence
Emotional Inertia Prospectively Predicts the Onset of Depressive Disorder in Adolescence
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DOI：
10.1037/a0025046
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发表时间：
2012-04-01
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影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
Allen, Nicholas B.
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作者：
Kuppens, Peter;Sheeber, Lisa B.;Allen, Nicholas B.
情绪惯性指的是一个人当前的情绪状态被他们之前的情绪状态所预测的程度，反映了这种情绪从一个时刻延续到下一个时刻的程度。最近，在一项横断面研究中，我们发现高惯性是抑郁症等心理失调中观察到的情绪动力学的一个重要特征。在本研究中，我们考察了情绪惯性是否能预测青春期首次发作抑郁症的发病。基于与父母自然互动录像的秒对秒行为编码，对早期青少年样本（N = 165）的情绪惯性进行了评估。消极和积极情绪行为的更大惯性预示着2.5年后临床抑郁症的出现。本文讨论了这些发现对理解抑郁症的病因和早期发现的意义。
Emotional inertia refers to the degree to which a person's current emotional state is predicted by their prior emotional state, reflecting how much it carries over from one moment to the next. Recently, in a cross-sectional study, we showed that high inertia is an important characteristic of the emotion dynamics observed in psychological maladjustment such as depression. In the present study, we examined whether emotional inertia prospectively predicts the onset of first-episode depression during adolescence. Emotional inertia was assessed in a sample of early adolescents (N = 165) based on second-to-second behavioral coding of videotaped naturalistic interactions with a parent. Greater inertia of both negative and positive emotional behaviors predicted the emergence of clinical depression 2.5 years later. The implications of these findings for the understanding of the etiology and early detection of depression are discussed.