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Self-Reported Depression Is Associated With Aberration in Emotional Reactivity and Emotional Concept Coding

Cognitive impairment, alterations in mood, emotion dysregulation are just a few of the consequences of depression. Despite depression being reported as the most common mental disorder worldwide, examining depression or risks of depression is still challenging. Emotional reactivity has been observed...

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Autores principales: Sheoran, Himansh, Srivastava, Priyanka
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9267768/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35814123
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.814234
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description Cognitive impairment, alterations in mood, emotion dysregulation are just a few of the consequences of depression. Despite depression being reported as the most common mental disorder worldwide, examining depression or risks of depression is still challenging. Emotional reactivity has been observed to predict the risk of depression, but the results have been mixed for negative emotional reactivity (NER). To better understand the emotional response conflict, we asked our participants to describe their feeling in meaningful sentences alongside reporting their reactions to the emotionally evocative words. We presented a word on the screen and asked participants to perform two tasks, rate their feeling after reading the word using the self-assessment manikin (SAM) scale, and describe their feeling using the property generation task. The emotional content was analyzed using a novel machine-learning algorithm approach. We performed these two tasks in blocks and randomized their order across participants. Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) was used to categorize participants into self-reported non-depressed (ND) and depressed (D) groups. Compared to the ND, the D group reported reduced positive emotional reactivity when presented with extremely pleasant words regardless of their arousal levels. However, no significant difference was observed between the D and ND groups for negative emotional reactivity. In contrast, we observed increased sadness and inclination toward low negative context from descriptive content by the D compared to the ND group. The positive content analyses showed mixed results. The contrasting results between the emotional reactivity and emotional content analyses demand further examination between cohorts of self-reported depressive symptoms, no-symptoms, and MDD patients to better examine the risks of depression and help design early interventions.
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spelling pubmed-92677682022-07-09 Self-Reported Depression Is Associated With Aberration in Emotional Reactivity and Emotional Concept Coding Sheoran, Himansh Srivastava, Priyanka Front Psychol Psychology Cognitive impairment, alterations in mood, emotion dysregulation are just a few of the consequences of depression. Despite depression being reported as the most common mental disorder worldwide, examining depression or risks of depression is still challenging. Emotional reactivity has been observed to predict the risk of depression, but the results have been mixed for negative emotional reactivity (NER). To better understand the emotional response conflict, we asked our participants to describe their feeling in meaningful sentences alongside reporting their reactions to the emotionally evocative words. We presented a word on the screen and asked participants to perform two tasks, rate their feeling after reading the word using the self-assessment manikin (SAM) scale, and describe their feeling using the property generation task. The emotional content was analyzed using a novel machine-learning algorithm approach. We performed these two tasks in blocks and randomized their order across participants. Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) was used to categorize participants into self-reported non-depressed (ND) and depressed (D) groups. Compared to the ND, the D group reported reduced positive emotional reactivity when presented with extremely pleasant words regardless of their arousal levels. However, no significant difference was observed between the D and ND groups for negative emotional reactivity. In contrast, we observed increased sadness and inclination toward low negative context from descriptive content by the D compared to the ND group. The positive content analyses showed mixed results. The contrasting results between the emotional reactivity and emotional content analyses demand further examination between cohorts of self-reported depressive symptoms, no-symptoms, and MDD patients to better examine the risks of depression and help design early interventions. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-06-24 /pmc/articles/PMC9267768/ /pubmed/35814123 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.814234 Text en Copyright © 2022 Sheoran and Srivastava. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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title Self-Reported Depression Is Associated With Aberration in Emotional Reactivity and Emotional Concept Coding
title_full Self-Reported Depression Is Associated With Aberration in Emotional Reactivity and Emotional Concept Coding
title_fullStr Self-Reported Depression Is Associated With Aberration in Emotional Reactivity and Emotional Concept Coding
title_full_unstemmed Self-Reported Depression Is Associated With Aberration in Emotional Reactivity and Emotional Concept Coding
title_short Self-Reported Depression Is Associated With Aberration in Emotional Reactivity and Emotional Concept Coding
title_sort self-reported depression is associated with aberration in emotional reactivity and emotional concept coding
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9267768/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35814123
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