The present study was designed to test the hypothesis that unrealistically high happiness emotion goals lead to decreased emotion regulation self-efficacy, which in turn, leads to depressive symptoms. A cross-lagged panel design with data collection at three time points was used to allow for causal inferences of directionality among study variables. Participants (N = 181) completed a battery of self-report questionnaires at a baseline assessment session (T1). The same measures were completed again at 6- (T2) and 12-month (T3) follow-up sessions. Results of a cross-lagged path analysis indicated that emotion regulation self-efficacy at T2 mediated the relation between happiness emotion goals at T1 and depressive symptoms at T3, thus confirming the primary study hypothesis. To decrease the likelihood that one will experience depressive symptoms, vulnerable individuals may benefit from preemptive efforts that help recalibrate emotion goals in a realistic manner or shift attention toward end-state goals that are not emotion related. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).

中文翻译：

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情绪调节自我效能介导幸福情绪目标与抑郁症状之间的关系：交叉滞后的面板设计。

本研究旨在检验以下假设：不切实际的高幸福感情绪目标会导致情绪调节自我效能下降，进而导致抑郁症状。使用在三个时间点收集数据的交叉滞后面板设计，可以对研究变量之间的方向性进行因果推断。参与者（N = 181）在基线评估会议（T1）上完成了一系列自我报告调查表。在第6阶段（T2）和第12个月（T3）的后续会议中再次完成了相同的措施。交叉滞后路径分析的结果表明，T2时的情绪调节自我效能介导了T1时的幸福情绪目标与T3时的抑郁症状之间的关系，从而证实了主要的研究假设。为了降低出现抑郁症状的可能性，易受伤害的个人可能会受益于先发制人的努力，这些努力有助于以现实的方式重新调整情绪目标，或者将注意力转移到与情绪无关的最终状态目标。（PsycINFO数据库记录（c）2019 APA，保留所有权利）。