Depression severity moderates the relation between self-distancing and features of emotion unfolding

Autor: Philippe Verduyn, Iven Van Mechelen, Peter Kuppens, Philippe Fossati, Maxime Résibois
Přispěvatelé: Section Applied Social Psychology, RS: FPN WSP II
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Personality and Individual Differences, 123, 119-124. Elsevier Science
ISSN: 0191-8869
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2017.11.018
Popis: Thinking about a negative event from a self-distanced (vs. self-immersed) perspective is associated with lower emotion intensity. However, it is unclear how self-distancing impacts emotion unfolding and whether individual differences in depression severity moderate this impact. We addressed this issue by examining the effect of self-distancing on emotion explosiveness (i.e., steepness of the emotion response at onset) and accumulation (i.e., intensification of the response after onset) in participants differing in levels of depression. Participants adopted a self-immersed or self-distanced perspective while reading and thinking about manipulated negative social feedback. Both explosiveness and accumulation decreased when participants adopted a self-distanced perspective. Moreover, the effect of perspective taking on accumulation was especially outspoken for people with high levels of depression severity.
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