ABSTRACT

Reappraisal is a widely investigated emotion regulation strategy, often impaired in those with acquired brain injury (ABI). Little is known, however, about the tools to measure this capacity in patients, who may find traditional reappraisal tasks difficult. Fifty-five participants with ABI, and thirty-five healthy controls (HCs), completed reappraisal tasks with personal and impersonal emotion elicitation components, questionnaires measuring reappraisal (the ERQ-CA), and neuropsychological assessment. The main findings demonstrated that both groups produced more reappraisals, and rated their reappraisal ideas as more effective for personal stimuli. The ABI group were significantly faster to generate reappraisals for personal, compared to impersonal, stimuli. Yet, participants with ABI performed worse than HCs on the majority of reappraisal components, across both reappraisal tasks. Results of regression analyses revealed significant relationships between certain measures of cognitive control and certain reappraisal components, which varied for the personal and impersonal reappraisal task. Notably, while inhibition predicted aspects of reappraisal in both the ABI and HC group, working memory was only related to reappraisal in participants with ABI. The study suggests that personal context plays a key role in reappraisal, and proposes a model to better understand the role of cognitive control across the reappraisal process.

摘要

重新评估是一种广泛研究的情绪调节策略，经常在获得性脑损伤 (ABI) 患者中受损。然而，关于测量患者这种能力的工具知之甚少，他们可能会发现传统的重新评估任务很困难。55 名 ABI 参与者和 35 名健康对照 (HC) 完成了具有个人和非个人情绪诱发成分的重新评估任务、测量重新评估的问卷 (ERQ-CA) 和神经心理学评估。主要发现表明，两组都产生了更多的重新评估，并且认为他们的重新评估想法对个人刺激更有效。ABI 组明显更快与非个人的刺激相比，产生对个人的重新评估。然而，在两项重新评估任务中，ABI 参与者在大多数重新评估组件上的表现都比 HC 差。回归分析的结果揭示了认知控制的某些测量与某些重新评估组件之间的显着关系，这些组件因个人和非个人重新评估任务而异。值得注意的是，虽然抑制预测了 ABI 和 HC 组中重新评估的各个方面，但工作记忆仅与 ABI 参与者的重新评估有关。该研究表明，个人背景在重新评估中起着关键作用，并提出了一个模型来更好地理解认知控制在重新评估过程中的作用。