ABSTRACT

Depression is associated with increased observer visual perspective for positive autobiographical memories. However, it is unclear if this relationship (1) is present in individuals at high familial risk of depression; (2) is a general bias extending to future imagined events; and (3) is independent of general cognition and other cognitive biases. We examined the association of observer perspective, valence (positive, negative, neutral) and temporality (memories, future imagined events) with depressive symptoms in 29 young adults at high familial risk for depression. Increased observer perspective for memories was associated with dimensional depressive symptoms controlling for IQ and autobiographical specificity. There was weak evidence that increased observer perspective for future events was associated with a diagnostic measure of depressive symptoms, but limited evidence that perspective by valence interactions were associated with depressive symptoms. Results indicate depressive symptoms are associated with an observer perspective bias in autobiographical thinking regardless of temporality or valence.

摘要

抑郁症与积极自传记忆的观察者视觉视角增加有关。然而，尚不清楚这种关系 (1) 是否存在于具有高家族抑郁风险的个体中；(2) 是一种延伸到未来想象事件的普遍偏见；(3) 独立于一般认知和其他认知偏差。我们检查了观察者视角、效价（积极、消极、中性）和时间性（记忆、未来想象事件）与 29 名具有高抑郁家族风险的年轻人的抑郁症状之间的关联。观察者对记忆的看法增加与控制智商和自传特异性的维度抑郁症状有关。有弱证据表明观察者对未来事件的看法增加与抑郁症状的诊断措施相关，但有限的证据表明通过价相互作用的看法与抑郁症状相关。结果表明，无论时间性或效价如何，抑郁症状都与自传体思维中的观察者视角偏见有关。