Age Differences in Distress Following Intrusive Thoughts

侵入性想法带来的痛苦的年龄差异

• 批准号: 8310949
• 负责人: BETHANY A TEACHMAN
• 金额: $ 36.48万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-30 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8310949
• 关键词: Accidents; Adult; Age; Aging; Anxiety; Anxiety Disorders; Applications Grants; Attention; Belief; Biological Preservation; Clinical; Cognition; Cognitive; Decision Making; Development; Distress; Doctor of Philosophy; Educational process of instructing; Elderly; Emotional; Emotions; Friends; Fright; Future; Health; Healthcare; High Prevalence; Hydrocortisone; Image; Impaired cognition; Incidence; Individual Differences; Intervention Studies; Learning; Letters; Link; Measures; Mediating; Mental Depression; Mental Health; Methodology; Mind; Modeling; Monitor; Morbidity - disease rate; Older Population; Outcome; Participant; Pilot Projects; Population; Process; Psyche structure; Psychopathology; Public Health; Reaction; Recommendation; Recurrence; Relative (related person); Religion and Spirituality; Research; Research Design; Research Personnel; Risk; Risk Factors; Role; Series; Services; Short-Term Memory; Staging; Testing; Thinking; Time; Training; Translating; United States National Institutes of Health; Water; Work; abstracting; age difference; age related; base; behavioral/social science; brief intervention; cognitive function; coping; daily functioning; emotion regulation; experience; functional decline; healthy aging; heart disease risk; improved; insight; loved ones; mortality; physical conditioning; prevent; response; self esteem; social; social cognition; social science research; thought control; tool; young adult

Project Summary/Abstract Intrusive thoughts are unpleasant but familiar visitors to the mind. They are a common occurrence for older adults, but little is known about how the experience and consequences of intrusive thoughts change with age. Studying intrusive thoughts in older adults is important because unwanted mental activity is so ubiquitous, and because intrusive thoughts are central to emotion dysregulation, producing anxiety, depression and health problems that are tied to morbidity and mortality. We propose to study age differences in response to intrusive thoughts among healthy and anxious older adults to determine both the protective factors that can help us understand preservation of emotional, physical and mental health, and the risk factors that can help us learn how to intervene with those older adults who are struggling with emotional difficulties. In this proposal, we lay out a model to understand age-related differences in the recurrence of intrusive thoughts and ensuing distress. We will conduct a series of studies with older and younger adults using a thought suppression paradigm where participants will attempt to suppress their intrusive thoughts. This paradigm reliably elicits intrusive thoughts, which will allow us to evaluate age differences in the recurrence and attempts made to control these thoughts, meanings assigned to the thoughts, and the degree to which the thoughts provoke distress. Next, a series of manipulations are planned to examine the mechanisms underlying age differences in intrusive thoughts, such as manipulating the meaning assigned to thoughts and altering available working memory capacity. We will examine both age-related protective and risk factors for managing intrusive thoughts to determine when they contribute to emotion dysregulation versus when they contribute to successful aging. Finally, we will test the translational potential of the model, including brief intervention studies with anxious older adults to determine whether training these adults to assign less threatening meanings to their intrusive thoughts can reduce their distress. We will also evaluate the impact of intrusive thoughts and consequent distress on daily functioning in older adults, examining critical domains such as decision making. Ultimately, by examining the link between intrusive thoughts and distress, we can improve understanding of the interplay between emotion and cognition and their interaction with aging.

项目摘要/摘要 侵入性的想法是令人不愉快但熟悉的访客。它们是常见的事件 老年人，但对侵入性思想的经验和后果的了解鲜为人知 年龄。在老年人中研究侵入性思想很重要，因为不必要的心理活动无处不在， 而且由于侵入性思想是情绪失调的核心，导致焦虑，抑郁和健康 与发病率和死亡相关的问题。我们建议研究对侵入性的响应年龄差异 在健康和焦虑的老年人中的想法，以确定可以帮助我们的保护因素 了解情绪，身心健康的保存以及可以帮助我们学习的风险因素 如何干预那些在情感困难中挣扎的老年人。 在此提案中，我们制定了一个模型来了解侵入性复发的年龄相关差异 思想和随之而来的困扰。我们将使用A 思想抑制范式，参与者将试图抑制他们的侵入性思想。这 范式可靠地引起侵入性思想，这将使我们能够评估复发的年龄差异 并尝试控制这些思想，分配给思想的含义以及 思想引起了困扰。接下来，计划进行一系列操作以检查基础机制 侵入性思想的年龄差异，例如操纵分配给思想的含义和改变 可用的工作记忆能力。我们将研究与年龄有关的保护性和风险因素 侵入性思想以确定何时有助于情绪失调，而不是何时做出贡献 成功的衰老。最后，我们将测试模型的翻译潜力，包括简短的干预研究 与焦虑的老年人一起确定训练这些成年人是否为较少的威胁意义分配 他们的侵入性思想可以减少他们的困扰。我们还将评估侵入性思想的影响和 因此，老年人日常运作的困扰，检查了诸如决策之类的关键领域。 最终，通过检查侵入性思想与困扰之间的联系，我们可以提高对 情绪与认知之间的相互作用以及它们与衰老的互动。