Emotional mental imagery generation during spontaneous future thinking: relationship with optimism and negative mood.
Emotional mental imagery generation during spontaneous future thinking: relationship with optimism and negative mood.
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自发未来思考过程中情绪心理意象的产生：与乐观和消极情绪的关系。
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10.1007/s00426-021-01501-w
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2022
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Ji JL
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Ji JL
乐观可以缓冲消极情绪。因此，了解导致乐观主义个体差异的因素可能会为情绪障碍的干预提供信息。初步证据表明，积极相对于消极的未来情景的心理意象为基础的表征的产生与乐观有关。本研究探讨了一个假设，即在自发的未来思维过程中产生积极相对于消极的心理意象的倾向升高，通过其与更高的乐观主义的关系，与减少消极情绪有关。参与者（N= 44）与不同水平的自然发生的消极情绪报告当前的乐观水平和实时发生和自发的想法在持续的注意力计算机任务的特点。与假设一致，较高的乐观主义统计介导的关系，在自发的未来思维和较低的消极情绪的积极相对于消极的心理意象的比例较高的频率。此外，情绪心理意象和乐观之间的关系被发现为未来，但不是过去，思考，也不是口头的未来或过去的思考。因此，当自发地思考未来时，更倾向于产生积极而不是消极的基于图像的心理表征可能会影响一个人的乐观感受，这反过来又可能影响一个人对消极情绪的体验。
Optimism is known to buffer against negative mood. Thus, understanding the factors that contribute to individual variation in optimism may inform interventions for mood disorders. Preliminary evidence suggests that the generation of mental imagery-based representations of positive relative to negative future scenarios is related to optimism. This study investigated the hypothesis that an elevated tendency to generate positive relative to negative mental imagery during spontaneous future thinking would be associated with reduced negative mood via its relationship to higher optimism. Participants (N= 44) with varied levels of naturally occurring negative mood reported current levels of optimism and the real-time occurrence and characteristics of spontaneous thoughts during a sustained attention computer task. Consistent with hypotheses, higher optimism statistically mediated the relationship between a higher proportional frequency of positive relative to negative mental imagery during spontaneous future thinking and lower negative mood. Further, the relationship between emotional mental imagery and optimism was found for future, but not past, thinking, nor for verbal future or past thinking. Thus, a greater tendency to generate positive rather than negative imagery-based mental representations when spontaneously thinking about the future may influence how optimistic one feels, which in turn may influence one’s experience of negative mood.