Depression is characterized by increased levels of negative affect and decreased levels of positive affect. Prior research shows that individual differences in emotion regulation play an important role in understanding sustained negative affect within the disorder; yet, much less is known about the regulation of positive emotion in depression. The current paper utilizes emotion regulation models that synthesizes multiple emotion processes, including what people want to feel (emotion preferences) and the ways in which people typically respond to emotion (habitual use of emotion regulation strategies), to increase our understanding of positive emotion in depression. In doing so, we propose that depression is associated with relative reductions in the preference for positive emotion; these reductions may therefore increase the habitual use of emotion regulation strategies that serve to down-regulate positive emotion and decrease the use of strategies that serve to up-regulate positive emotion. Dysfunction in habitual emotion regulation strategy use may, in turn, contribute to the relatively low levels of positive emotion within the disorder. The paper also discusses important empirical gaps in the extant literature on emotion preferences and emotion regulation in depression and highlights novel treatment targets (e.g., emotion preferences) for interventions aimed at improving emotion dysfunction in depression.

抑郁症的特征在于负面影响的程度增加而正面影响的程度减少。先前的研究表明，情绪调节中的个体差异在理解疾病中持续的负面影响方面起着重要作用。然而，对于抑郁症中积极情绪的调节知之甚少。本论文利用情绪调节模型来综合多个情绪过程，包括人们想要的感受（情绪偏好）以及人们通常对情绪做出反应的方式（习惯性使用情绪调节策略），以增进我们对积极情绪的理解。萧条。通过这样做，我们认为抑郁与积极情绪偏好的相对降低有关。因此，这些减少可能会增加习惯于使用情绪调节策略来降低正向情绪的习惯，并减少对习惯使用向上调升积极情绪的策略。反过来，习惯性情绪调节策略使用中的功能障碍可能会导致疾病中相对较低的积极情绪。本文还讨论了有关抑郁症中的情绪偏好和情绪调节的现有文献中的重要经验空缺，并重点介绍了旨在改善抑郁症情绪障碍的干预措施的新治疗目标（例如，情绪偏好）。导致疾病中相对较低的积极情绪。本文还讨论了有关抑郁症中的情绪偏好和情绪调节的现有文献中的重要经验空缺，并重点介绍了旨在改善抑郁症情绪障碍的干预措施的新治疗目标（例如，情绪偏好）。导致疾病中相对较低的积极情绪。本文还讨论了有关抑郁症中的情绪偏好和情绪调节的现有文献中的重要经验空缺，并重点介绍了旨在改善抑郁症情绪障碍的干预措施的新治疗目标（例如，情绪偏好）。