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The role of attentional deployment during distancing in adolescents with major depression

Greimel, E., Piechaczek, C., Schulte-Rüther, M., Feldmann, L., Schulte-Körne, G.·2020·Behaviour Research and Therapy
DOI 10.1016/j.brat.2020.103554
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Individuals with major depression (MD) show deficits in cognitive reappraisal. It is yet unexplored how the act of directing visual attention away from/towards emotional aspects impacts on cognitive reappraisal in MD. Thus, we examined the role of attentional deployment during cognitive reappraisal (specifially during distancing) in adolescent MD. 36 MD adolescents and 37 healthy controls (12-18 years) performed a cognitive reappraisal task during which they a) down-regulated self-reported negative affective responses to negative pictures via distancing, or b) simply attended to the pictures. During the task, attentional focus was systematically varied by directing participants' gaze to emotional vs. non-emotional picture aspects. The validity of this experimental manipulation was checked by continuous eye-tracking during the task. Across groups and gaze focus conditions, distancing diminished negative affective responses to the pictures. Regulation success significantly differed between groups dependent on gaze focus: MD adolescents showed relatively less regulation success than controls in the emotional gaze focus condition, while the reverse was true for the non-emotional gaze focus condition. The results suggest that in MD adolescents, an emotional context might interfere with emotion regulatory aims. The findings can provide an important starting point for the development of innovative training regimes that target deficient reappraisal processes in adolescents suffering from MD.

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  • Laboratory-based experimental studies with children and adolescents indicate that adopting a decentered perspective dampens emotional reactivity towards aversive stimuli, as shown by decreased negative affect, reduced believability of inner events, lower aggressive behaviors, and shorter emotional episodes.

    “First, laboratory-based experimental studies with children and adolescents indicate that adopting a decentered perspective (e.g. instructions to adopt a third-person perspective or re-perceive events ‘as if watching themselves in a movie’) dampens emotional reactivity towards aversive stimuli.”

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Authors
Greimel, E., Piechaczek, C., Schulte-Rüther, M., Feldmann, L., & Schulte-Körne, G.
Affiliations
LMU Klinikum (DE)
Corresponding author
Greimel, E.
ORCID
Venue
Behaviour Research and Therapy
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2020-03
Volume
126
Pages
103554
ISSN
0005-7967 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.brat.2020.103554
OpenAlex
W3001489231
Cited by
14
References
80
Citations by year
2025: 2 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1
FWCI
1.69
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
Locations
  • Behaviour Research and Therapy (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (GR4753/2-1)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
Keywords
major depressive disorder, adolescents, cognitive reappraisal, distancing, attentional deployment, emotion regulation, negative affect, emotional pictures, eye tracking
MeSH terms
Emotional Regulation, Adolescent, Affect, Attention, Child, Cognition, Major Depressive Disorder, Emotions, Female, Fixation, Ocular, Humans, Male, Photic Stimulation

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