Recent research suggests that depression may stem from the conflicted relationship between the goal to continue living and the knowledge of death (Hayes, Ward, & McGregor, 2016). From this perspective, awareness of inevitable death can trigger withdrawal from the goal to continue living, which precipitates a general collapse in the goal-approach system and causes depression. Withdrawal from life functions to resolve motivational conflict regarding life and death, however, and thereby reduces feelings of anxiety. The current research extends this theorizing by testing the hypothesis that reactivating the goal to continue living among people who are life-withdrawn reduces feelings of depression but increases anxiety. Based on the evidence, we propose a model of depression and anxiety stemming from death-awareness that sheds light on depression-anxiety comorbidity, and discuss implications of the model for understanding depressive symptomatology.

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在坚硬的地方和岩石之间：肯定生命可以减轻抑郁，但会增加焦虑

最近的研究表明，抑郁症可能源于继续生活的目标与死亡知识之间的矛盾关系（Hayes，Ward和McGregor，2016年）。从这个角度来看，对不可避免死亡的认识会触发目标退缩以继续生存，这会导致目标接近系统普遍崩溃并导致沮丧。退出生活功能可以解决与生死有关的动机冲突，从而减少焦虑感。当前的研究通过检验以下假设扩展了这一理论，即重新激活目标，使人们在有生命的人中继续生活可以减少沮丧感，但会增加焦虑感。根据证据，