Depression and excessive reassurance-seeking
Depression and excessive reassurance-seeking
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DOI：
10.1207/s15327965pli1004_1
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发表时间：
1999-01-01
影响因子：
9.3
通讯作者：
Beach, SRH
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作者：
Joiner, TE;Metalsky, GI;Beach, SRH
本文描述了一项关于过度寻求安慰及其与抑郁症关系的研究项目。总结了相关理论、中心预测和实证工作，并指出了该研究计划对抑郁症科学和临床工作的影响。我们认为，过度寻求安慰 (a) 可能是抑郁症状的潜在诱因； (b) 参与产生负面的人际后果，例如人际干扰和“传染性”抑郁症； (c) 以可能拓宽和加强抑郁症理论和科学的方式与其他理论上重要的抑郁症相关概念建立联系； (d) 对于抑郁症的治疗和预防具有潜在的重要性。本文可能对研究抑郁症社会心理学和临床心理学的人以及从事抑郁症患者心理治疗的人感兴趣，并可能对未来的理论、实证和临床工作有所启发；最终目标是增进对抑郁症这一令人烦恼（且日益严重）的人类问题的了解并减少其痛苦。
This article describes a program of research on excessive reassurance-seeking and its relation to depression. Relevant theory, central predictions, and empirical work are summarized, and the research program's implications for depression science and clinical work are noted. We argue that excessive reassurance-seeking (a) is implicated as a potential contributory cause of depressive symptoms; (b) is involved in generating negative interpersonal outcomes, such as interpersonal disruptions and "contagious" depression; (c) relates to other theoretically important depression-related constructs in ways that may broaden and enhance depression theory and science; and (d) has potential import for the treatment and prevention of depression. The article may be of interest to those studying the social and clinical psychology of depression, as well as those engaged in the psychotherapy of depressed people, and may inspire future theoretical, empirical and clinical work; with the ultimate aim of increasing understanding of and decreasing suffering from depression, a vexing (and increasing) human problem.