Imagine How Good That Feels: The Impact of Anticipated Positive Emotions on Motivation for Reward Activities
Imagine How Good That Feels: The Impact of Anticipated Positive Emotions on Motivation for Reward Activities
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10.1007/s10608-022-10306-z
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发表时间：
2022-05
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2.8
通讯作者：
Max Heise;J. Werthmann;F. Murphy;B. Tuschen-Caffier;Fritz Renner
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作者：
Max Heise;J. Werthmann;F. Murphy;B. Tuschen-Caffier;Fritz Renner
背景疾病负担和不理想的治疗结果呼唤抑郁症治疗的创新。前瞻性心理意象，即未来导向的自愿基于意象的思想，关于潜在的奖励活动，可以提供一个机械的知情干预，目标是奖励处理的缺陷，抑郁症的核心临床特征。我们建议，先前描述的影响，前瞻性的心理意象对动机的日常活动是促进情感预测，即预测一个人的情绪反应，以imaginedactivity.MethodsParticipants（N= 120）自我提名的六个活动，从事在接下来的一周，并随机分为：（1）一个情感预测imagerycondition（n= 40）;（2）非中性过程想象条件（n= 40）;（3）非想象控制条件（n= 40）。结果与预期一致，实验操作前后，情感预测想象组的动机评分显著高于中性过程想象组（d= 0.62）和非想象组（d= 0.91）。相反的预测，参与者从事的活动的数量之间没有差异conditions.ConclusionsResults提供了初步证据的潜在重要作用的情感预测在前瞻性的心理意象。我们讨论了这些发现如何为未来的研究提供信息，旨在利用前瞻性心理意象的临床应用潜力。
BackgroundDisease burden and unsatisfactory treatment outcomes call for innovation in treatments of depression. Prospective mental imagery, i.e. future-directed voluntary imagery-based thought, about potentially-rewarding activities may offer a mechanistically-informed intervention that targets deficits in reward processing, a core clinical feature of depression. We propose that the previously described impact of prospective mental imagery on motivation for everyday activities is facilitated byaffective forecasting, i.e. predictions about an individual’s emotional response to the imagined activities.MethodsParticipants (N= 120) self-nominated six activities to engage in over the following week and were randomized to either: (1) anaffective forecasting imagerycondition (n= 40); (2) aneutral process imagerycondition (n= 40); or (3) ano-imagerycontrol condition (n= 40).ResultsAs predicted, increases in motivation ratings from pre to post experimental manipulation were significantly higher following affective forecasting imagery compared to both neutral process imagery (d= 0.62) and no-imagery (d= 0.91). Contrary to predictions, the number of activities participants engaged in did not differ between conditions.ConclusionsResults provide initial evidence for a potentially important role of affective forecasting in prospective mental imagery. We discuss how these findings can inform future research aiming to harness prospective mental imagery’s potential for clinical applications.