An Investigation of Sense of Agency in Depression

一种对我们的行为及其后果的控制感构成了人类意识的一个基本方面，是人类体验的基础。然而，这种代理感并不是不受扭曲的影响。事实上，在包括精神分裂症、强迫症和自闭症在内的许多神经和精神疾病中都观察到了机构感觉的异常(Blakemore等人，2000；Graham-Schmidt等人，2018 Moore，2018)。然而，抑郁症患者的代理感是否存在这种差异，还有待于实证研究。长期以来，抑郁症的特征是对生活中的结果感到无助和绝望(Peterson&Sig man，1984；Sig man，1989)，因此有一个强有力的理论基础来研究这一人群中的代理感。因此，目前的研究项目将继续进行这一系列的研究，以了解抑郁症症状，无论是在临床水平上，还是在整个健康的连续体中，是否与代理感的差异有关。

A feeling of control over our actions and their consequences forms a fundamental aspect of human consciousness and is foundational to the human experience. Yet this sense of agency is not impervious to distortion. Indeed, aberrations in sense of agency have been observed amongst a number neurological and psychiatric conditions including Schizophrenia, OCD and autism (Blakemore et al., 2000; Graham-Schmidt et al., 2018 Moore, 2018). However, whether such differences in sense of agency exist amongst those with depression is yet to be empirically explored. As depression has long been characterised by feelings of helplessness and hopelessness over the outcomes in one's life (Peterson & Seligman, 1984; Seligman, 1989), there is a strong theoretical rationale to investigate sense of agency within this population. The current research project will therefore pursue this line of research to understand whether depressive symptomatology, both at a clinical level and across the healthy continuum is associated with differences in sense of agency.