First-person Pronoun Use in Spoken Language as a Predictor of Future Depressive Symptoms: Preliminary Evidence from a Clinical Sample of Depressed Patients.
First-person Pronoun Use in Spoken Language as a Predictor of Future Depressive Symptoms: Preliminary Evidence from a Clinical Sample of Depressed Patients.
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口语中第一人称代词的使用作为未来抑郁症状的预测：来自抑郁症患者临床样本的初步证据。
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发表时间：
2016
影响因子：
3.6
通讯作者：
Markus Wolf
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作者：
Johannes Zimmermann;T. Brockmeyer;M. Hunn;H. Schauenburg;Markus Wolf
一些理论表明，自我关注在抑郁症的维持中起着重要作用。然而，之前的研究主要依靠自我报告和基于实验室的测量（例如句子完成任务）来评估自我关注的个体差异。我们以 29 名患有临床抑郁症的住院患者为样本，提出了一项前瞻性纵向研究，调查自我关注的隐性行为测量（即自然口语中第一人称单数代词的相对频率）是否可以预测后续抑郁症状（超过初始抑郁症）。我们没有发现抑郁症状与第一人称单数代词使用之间存在显着的横截面关联。然而，即使在基线或出院时控制了抑郁症状后，第一人称单数代词的使用也能显着预测大约 8 个月后的抑郁症状。探索性分析表明，这种效应主要是由使用客观和所有格的自我指涉（例如“我”或“我的”）所驱动的。我们的研究结果与强调自我关注的个体差异作为抑郁症病程预测因素的理论是一致的。此外，我们的研究结果通过采用一种不引人注目的非反应性评估方法，捕捉自我关注中自然发生的差异，扩展了该领域的先前工作。我们讨论基于语言的评估和自我关注干预措施的可能临床应用。版权所有 © 2016 约翰·威利父子有限公司
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第一人称单数代词使用中自然发生的个体差异提供了一种不显眼的方式来评估患者自动自我关注的注意力。频繁使用第一人称单数代词预示着抑郁症的不利发展。以自我为中心的语言可能提供跟踪和瞄准治疗变化的创新方法。
Several theories suggest that self-focused attention plays an important role in the maintenance of depression. However, previous studies have predominantly relied on self-report and laboratory-based measures such as sentence completion tasks to assess individual differences in self-focus. We present a prospective, longitudinal study based on a sample of 29 inpatients with clinical depression, investigating whether an implicit, behavioural measure of self-focused attention, i.e., the relative frequency of first-person singular pronouns in naturally spoken language, predicts depressive symptoms at follow-up over and above initial depression. We did not find a significant cross-sectional association between depressive symptoms and first-person singular pronoun use. However, first-person singular pronoun use significantly predicted depressive symptoms approximately 8 months later, even after controlling for depressive symptoms at baseline or discharge. Exploratory analyses revealed that this effect was mainly driven by the use of objective and possessive self-references such as 'me' or 'my'. Our findings are in line with theories that highlight individual differences in self-focused attention as a predictor of the course of depression. Moreover, our findings extend previous work in this field by adopting an unobtrusive approach of non-reactive assessment, capturing naturally occurring differences in self-focused attention. We discuss possible clinical applications of language-based assessments and interventions with regard to self-focus. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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Naturally occurring individual differences in first-person singular pronoun use provide an unobtrusive way to assess patients' automatic self-focused attention. Frequent use of first-person singular pronouns predicts an unfavourable course of depression. Self-focused language might offer innovative ways of tracking and targeting therapeutic change.
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