Optimizing the ingredients for imagery-based interpretation bias modification for depressed mood: Is self-generation more effective than imagination alone?

JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS

卷:152

Article

Rohrbacher, Heike¹  Blackwell, Simon E.²  Holmes, Emily A.²  Reinecke, Andrea³ 

[1] Tech Univ Dresden, Dept Cognit Psychol, D-01062 Dresden, Germany

[2] MRC Cognit & Brain Sci Unit, Cambridge, England

[3] Univ Oxford, Dept Psychiat, Oxford, England

关键词: Depression;    Interpretation bias;    Cognitive bias modification;    Cognitive processing;    Mental imagery;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.jad.2013.09.013

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

Negative interpretation is thought to be crucial in the development and maintenance of depression. Recently developed cognitive bias modification paradigms, intending to change these biases towards a more optimistic interpretation tendency (CBM-I), seem to offer new promising implications for cognitive therapy innovation. This study aimed to increase our knowledge of the underlying mechanisms of action of imagery-based CBM-I in the context of depressed mood. We therefore compared the efficacy of CBM-I requiring participants to imagine standardized positive resolutions to a novel, more active training version that required participants to generate the positive interpretations themselves. Fifty-four participants were randomly allocated to (1) standardized CBM-I, (2) self-generation CBM-I or (3) a control group. Outcome measures included self-report mood measures and a depression-related interpretation bias measure. Both positive training variants significantly increased the tendency to interpret fresh ambiguous material in an optimistic manner. However, only the standardized imagery CBM-I paradigm positively influenced mood. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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