Depressive symptoms, task choice, and effort: The moderating effect of personal control on cardiac response.

IF 2.9 2区心理学 Q2 NEUROSCIENCES Psychophysiology Pub Date : 2024-06-23 DOI:10.1111/psyp.14635

Johanna R Falk, Peter M Gollwitzer, Gabriele Oettingen, Kerstin Brinkmann, Guido H E Gendolla

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Abstract

Dysphoric individuals perceive mental tasks as more demanding and show increased cardiovascular responses during the performance of easy cognitive tasks. Recent research on action shielding indicates that providing individuals with personal control over their tasks can mitigate the effects of manipulated affective states on cardiovascular responses reflecting effort. We investigated whether the shielding effect of personal choice also applies to the effect of dispositional negative mood on effort. N = 125 university students with high (dysphoric) versus low (nondysphoric) depressive symptoms engaged in an easy cognitive task either by personal choice or external assignment. As expected, dysphoric individuals showed significantly stronger cardiac PEP reactivity during task performance when the task was externally assigned. Most importantly, this dysphoria effect disappeared when participants could ostensibly personally choose their task. Our findings show that the previously observed shielding effect of personal action choice against incidental affective stimulation also applies to dispositional negative affect.

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抑郁症状、任务选择和努力：个人控制对心脏反应的调节作用。

情绪低落的人认为脑力劳动的要求更高，在完成简单的认知任务时会表现出更强烈的心血管反应。最近关于行动屏蔽的研究表明，为个体提供对任务的个人控制可以减轻受操纵的情绪状态对反映努力程度的心血管反应的影响。我们研究了个人选择的屏蔽效应是否也适用于倾向性消极情绪对努力程度的影响。N = 125 名具有高度（抑郁障碍）和低度（非抑郁障碍）抑郁症状的大学生通过个人选择或外部指派参与了一项简单的认知任务。不出所料，当任务由外部分配时，抑郁症患者在任务执行过程中表现出明显更强的心脏PEP反应性。最重要的是，当参与者表面上可以亲自选择任务时，这种焦虑症效应就消失了。我们的研究结果表明，之前观察到的个人行动选择对偶发情感刺激的屏蔽效应同样适用于处置性负面情感。

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Psychophysiology 医学-神经科学

CiteScore

6.80

自引率

8.10%

发文量

225

审稿时长

2 months

期刊介绍： Founded in 1964, Psychophysiology is the most established journal in the world specifically dedicated to the dissemination of psychophysiological science. The journal continues to play a key role in advancing human neuroscience in its many forms and methodologies (including central and peripheral measures), covering research on the interrelationships between the physiological and psychological aspects of brain and behavior. Typically, studies published in Psychophysiology include psychological independent variables and noninvasive physiological dependent variables (hemodynamic, optical, and electromagnetic brain imaging and/or peripheral measures such as respiratory sinus arrhythmia, electromyography, pupillography, and many others). The majority of studies published in the journal involve human participants, but work using animal models of such phenomena is occasionally published. Psychophysiology welcomes submissions on new theoretical, empirical, and methodological advances in: cognitive, affective, clinical and social neuroscience, psychopathology and psychiatry, health science and behavioral medicine, and biomedical engineering. The journal publishes theoretical papers, evaluative reviews of literature, empirical papers, and methodological papers, with submissions welcome from scientists in any fields mentioned above.