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.

项目概要/摘要 侵入性想法是令人不愉快但又熟悉的访客。它们是常见的现象 老年人，但人们对侵入性想法的体验和后果如何随着年龄的变化而变化知之甚少。 年龄。研究老年人的侵入性想法很重要，因为不需要的心理活动无处不在， 因为侵入性想法是情绪失调的核心，会产生焦虑、抑郁和健康 与发病率和死亡率相关的问题。我们建议研究年龄差异对侵入性的反应 健康和焦虑的老年人的想法，以确定可以帮助我们的保护因素 了解保持情绪、身体和心理健康，以及可以帮助我们学习的风险因素 如何干预那些在情绪困难中挣扎的老年人。 在本提案中，我们提出了一个模型来了解侵入性复发的年龄相关差异 的想法和随之而来的痛苦。我们将对老年人和年轻人进行一系列研究，使用 思想抑制范式，参与者将尝试抑制他们的侵入性思想。这 范式可靠地引发侵入性思维，这将使我们能够评估复发中的年龄差异 以及控制这些想法的尝试、赋予这些想法的含义以及控制这些想法的程度 思想会引起痛苦。接下来，计划进行一系列操作来检查潜在的机制 侵入性想法的年龄差异，例如操纵分配给想法的含义和改变 可用工作记忆容量。我们将检查与年龄相关的保护因素和风险因素以进行管理 侵入性想法，以确定它们何时会导致情绪失调，何时会导致情绪失调 成功老化。最后，我们将测试模型的转化潜力，包括简短的干预研究 与焦虑的老年人一起确定是否训练这些成年人赋予较少威胁的含义 他们的侵入性想法可以减轻他们的痛苦。我们还将评估侵入性想法和 随之而来的对老年人日常功能的困扰，检查决策等关键领域。 最终，通过检查侵入性想法和痛苦之间的联系，我们可以加深对侵入性想法和痛苦之间的联系的理解。 情绪和认知之间的相互作用及其与衰老的相互作用。