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Facilitating Adaptive Emotional Analysis: Distinguishing Distanced-Analysis of Depressive Experiences From Immersed-Analysis and Distraction
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Two studies examined the psychological processes that facilitate adaptive emotional analysis. In Study 1, participants recalled a depression experience and then analyzed their feelings from either a self-immersed (immersed-analysis) or self-distanced (distanced-analysis) perspective. Participants in the distanced-analysis group focused less on recounting their experience and more on reconstruing it, which in turn led to lower levels of depressed affect. Furthermore, comparisons to a distraction group indicated that distanced-analysis was as effective as distraction in reducing depressed affect relative to the immersed-analysis group. Study 2 replicated these findings and showed that both 1 day and 7 days after the experimental manipulations, participants in the distanced-analysis group remained buffered against depressed affect and reported experiencing fewer recurring thoughts about their depression experience over time compared to both the immersed-analysis and distraction groups.
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- Authors
- Kross, E., & Ayduk, O.
- Affiliations
- Columbia University (US)
- University of California, Berkeley,
- Corresponding author
- Kross, Ethan
- ORCID
- Kross, Ethan
- Venue
- Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2008-05-09
- Volume
- 34
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 924-938
- ISSN
- 0146-1672 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-7433
- OpenAlex
- W2025906891
- Cited by
- 390
- References
- 68
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- FWCI
- 23.12
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (MH39349)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Mental Health via Writing
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Identity, Memory, and Therapy
- Keywords
- depression, depressive affect, emotion regulation, distraction, autobiographical memory, thought suppression, rumination
- MeSH terms
- Adaptation, Psychological, Adolescent, Adult, Attention, Awareness, Depression, Female, Humans, Inhibition, Psychological, Life Change Events, Male, Problem Solving, Psychotherapy, Mental Recall, Repression, Psychology, Thinking, Self Psychology
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