Success/failure condition influences attribution of control, negative affect, and shame among patients with depression in Singapore
| Autor: | Cyrus S.H. Ho, Hani Zainal, Eddie M. W. Tong, Catherine So-kum Tang, Si Ning Yeo, Roger C.M. Ho |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Asia lcsh:RC435-571 media_common.quotation_subject Shame 050109 social psychology Major depressive disorder Affect (psychology) Blame 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Attribution of control lcsh:Psychiatry medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Psychiatry Depression (differential diagnoses) Internal-External Control media_common Singapore Depression 05 social sciences Middle Aged medicine.disease Moderation Achievement Mental health Psychiatry and Mental health Affect Case-Control Studies Female Self Report Psychology Attribution 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Clinical psychology Research Article |
| Zdroj: | BMC Psychiatry BMC Psychiatry, Vol 17, Iss 1, Pp 1-7 (2017) |
| ISSN: | 1471-244X |
| Popis: | Background There remains a paucity of research on control attribution and depression within Asian populations. This study examines: (1) Success/Failure condition as a moderator between depression and negative affect or shame, and (2) differences in control attribution between patients with depression and healthy controls in Singapore. Methods Seventy one patients with depression and 71 healthy controls went through a digit-span memory task where they were randomized into either the Success or Failure condition. Participants in the Success condition had to memorize and recall 5-digit strings, while participants in the Failure condition did the same for 12-digit strings. They then completed self-report measures of negative affect, shame, and attribution of control. One-way ANCOVA was performed to examine task condition as a moderator of association between mental health status and post-task negative affect or shame. Test of simple effects was carried out on significant interactions. Sign test and Mann-Whitney U test were employed to investigate differences in attribution of control. Results Mental health status and Success/Failure condition had significant effects on reported negative affect and shame. Healthy controls reported less post-task negative affect and shame in the Success than in the Failure condition while patients with depression reported similar levels of post-task negative affect and shame in both conditions. However, these differences were not significant in the test of simple effects. In addition, healthy controls felt a stronger sense of personal control in success than in failure and were more likely to blame external factors in failure than in success. Conversely, patients with depression were more inclined to credit external factors in success than in failure and ascribed greater personal control in failure than in success. Conclusion The results suggest that successful conditions may not necessitate the reduction of negative affect in Asians with depression, indicating possible cultural variation in affective states as a result of control attribution and the importance of attending to these variations in designing psychological intervention for Asians. Further studies are required to gather more evidence on control attributions in different contexts and study other cognitive mechanisms related to depression in the Asian population. |
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