ABSTRACT

Background and Objectives

Research has shown that state emotion can affect emotion regulation strategies in healthy samples. Emotion regulation plays an important role in depression. We hypothesized that for depressed individuals, experiencing anxiety or anger affects emotion regulation strategy use differently than experiencing sadness.

Design and Methods

Individuals diagnosed with chronic or recurrent depression (N = 386) responded to vignettes of hypothetical stressors and reported their state emotions and emotion regulation strategies in a thought-listing procedure. We modeled the effect of reporting anger or anxiety compared to sadness on the use of seven emotion regulation strategies: avoidance, distraction, other-blame, problem-solving, rumination, self-blame, and social support.

Results

Compared to sadness, anger was associated with a greater likelihood of using other-blame, and a lower likelihood of using avoidance, rumination, or self-blame. Compared to sadness, anxiety was associated with a greater likelihood of using self-blame. Responses with anger or anxiety did not significantly differ from sadness in coder-rated adaptiveness.

Conclusions

Differences in observed emotion regulation strategy use were correlated with the discrete emotions experienced, and not overall adaptiveness of a response. These results highlight the importance of assessing for emotion type when studying emotion regulation strategy use in depression.

中文翻译：

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情绪调节策略与重度抑郁症的离散状态情绪相关

摘要

背景和目标

研究表明，状态情绪可以影响健康样本的情绪调节策略。情绪调节在抑郁症中起着重要作用。我们假设，对于抑郁的个体，经历焦虑或愤怒会影响情绪调节策略的使用，而不是经历悲伤。

设计与方法

被诊断患有慢性或复发性抑郁症的个体 ( N  = 386) 对假设的压力源的小插曲做出反应，并在思维列表程序中报告了他们的状态情绪和情绪调节策略。我们模拟了与悲伤相比，报告愤怒或焦虑对七种情绪调节策略的影响：回避、分心、责备他人、解决问题、反思、自责和社会支持。

结果

与悲伤相比，愤怒与使用其他责备的可能性更大，使用回避、反思或自责的可能性较低有关。与悲伤相比，焦虑与自责的可能性更大有关。在编码员评定的适应性方面，愤怒或焦虑的反应与悲伤没有显着差异。

结论

观察到的情绪调节策略使用的差异与经历的离散情绪相关，而不是反应的整体适应性。这些结果突出了在研究情绪调节策略在抑郁症中的使用时评估情绪类型的重要性。