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KMID : 0981220100100010075
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Congnitive Behavior Therapy in Korea
2010 Volume.10 No. 1 p.75 ~ p.95
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The effects of functionally different self-focused attention on depressive mood: ruminative, reflective and experiential processing
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Lee So-Yeun
Shin Min-Sup
Kim Eun-Jung
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Abstract
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Recently, increasing studies suggests there are distinct varieties of self-focused attention, each with distinct functional properties. This study integrated these three distinct forms of self-focused attention and compared the effects of these on depressive mood. For this, 95 undergraduates were assigned into two groups, depressive group and non-depressive group. All participants were randomly allocated to ’ruminative’, ’reflective’, and ’experiential’ self-focus manipulations. To test different effects of self-focused attention, subjects wrote their sensation, feelings, emotion and thought about sad events according to each processing condition. The experiment results indicated reflective and experiential self-focus showed in depressive mood more decreases compared to the ruminative self-focus. Furthermore, after second treatment, reflective self-focus was the most effective in decreasing depressive mood. Higher levels of trait disposition to ruminative self-focus were associated with relatively greatest decreases in depressive mood in reflective self-focus and experiential self-focus condition compared to ruminative self-focus condition. Finally, the implications and limitations of this study were discussed with suggestions for the future study.
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KEYWORD
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self-focused attention, ruminative self-focus, reflective self-focus, experiential self-focus, depressive mood
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