Making the worst of a good job: Induced dampening appraisals blunt happiness and increase sadness in adolescents during pleasant memory recall
| Autor: | Barnaby D. Dunn, Tamsin Ford, Mahmood Javaid, Merve Yilmaz, Lamprini Psychogiou |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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050103 clinical psychology Adolescent media_common.quotation_subject Happiness Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Neuropsychological Tests Task (project management) Developmental psychology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Blunt Intervention (counseling) mental disorders Sadness medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences media_common Recall 05 social sciences Anhedonia Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Affect Mental Recall Female medicine.symptom Psychology psychological phenomena and processes 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Positive recall |
| Zdroj: | Behaviour research and therapy. 122 |
| ISSN: | 1873-622X |
| Popis: | Previous work has shown that dampening appraisals (e.g., thinking "this is too good to last") reduce happiness and enhance sadness when adults recall positive events. In contrast, amplifying appraisals (e.g., thinking "this is the sign of good things to come") do not significantly alter affective experience during the same task. The present study examined whether this pattern holds in adolescence. Eighty-nine adolescents completed an uninstructed positive recall task before being randomized to either dampening, uninstructed control or amplifying instructions during a second positive recall task. Participants experienced a significantly smaller increase in happiness and a significantly less marked reduction in sadness when recalling a positive memory under dampening instructions, relative to both the amplifying and no instruction control conditions. There was no significant difference between the amplifying and control conditions. This broadly replicates adult findings, but the detrimental effects of dampening were less marked in adolescents than adults. Nevertheless, given that elevated dampening appraisals are associated with depressed mood, dampening may partly account for why depressed adolescents struggle to experience positive emotions, and represent a promising target for clinical intervention. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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