Using mental imagery to manipulate the future time perspective of young adults: Effect on attentional bias in relation to depressive tendencies
Using mental imagery to manipulate the future time perspective of young adults: Effect on attentional bias in relation to depressive tendencies
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使用心理意象来操纵年轻人的未来时间视角：对与抑郁倾向相关的注意力偏差的影响
DOI：
10.1007/s10804-018-9317-x
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发表时间：
2018
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
Terumi Tanaka
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作者：
Okamoto;H.;Kataoka;M.;Kodama;S.;Narita;A.;Tsuda;Y.;Ito;T.;& Inoue;T.;Terumi Tanaka
社会情绪选择性理论认为，具有广阔未来时间视角的人采用积极和消极的信息来为未来事件做准备，而具有有限未来时间视角的人倾向于选择积极的信息而不是消极的信息，这表明了信息加工的偏向。因此，本研究既考察了未来心理意象是否会影响未来的时间透视，也考察了在操纵的未来时间透视条件下是否可以观察到注意偏差。为了控制影响注意偏向检查的抑郁倾向，24名有高抑郁倾向的大学生[6男18女，平均年龄18.46岁，标准差(SD) = 0.66]和22名低抑郁倾向大学生(7男，15女；平均年龄 = 18.73岁，SD= 1.12)被招募为被试，并被指导产生关于长期(短期)未来的心理意象，以实现有限(扩展)的未来时间透视条件。然后使用长线索呈现的外源性线索任务来检验注意偏向。验证了本研究采用的操作方法的有效性，并分析了操作方法对注意偏向的影响。在广阔的未来时间视角条件下，抑郁倾向较高的被试在注意脱离负面刺激的难度上存在显著差异。
Socioemotional selectivity theory postulates that a person with an expansive future time perspective adopts positive and negative information equally to prepare for future events, whereas a person with a limited future time perspective favors selecting positive over negative information, which suggests an information processing bias. Therefore, the present study was conducted to examine both whether future mental imagery can affect future time perspectives and whether attentional biases can be observed under manipulated future time perspective conditions. To control for depressive tendencies, which was assumed to affect the examination of attentional bias, 24 college students with high depressive tendencies [6 men, 18 women; mean age 18.46 years, standard deviation (SD) = 0.66] and 22 with low depressive tendencies (7 men, 15 women; mean age = 18.73 years,SD= 1.12) were recruited as participants and instructed to generate mental imagery about the long-term (short-term) future in order to achieve a limited (expansive) future time perspective condition. Attentional bias was then examined using an exogenous cueing task with long cue presentations. The effectiveness of the manipulation method used in this study was confirmed, and the results of the effects on attentional biases were analyzed. A significant difference in the difficulty of attentional disengagement from negative stimuli was observed among the participants with high depressive tendencies under the expansive future time perspective condition.