Spontaneous and induced counterfactual thinking in undergraduate students with depressive symptoms
- VernacularTitle:不同程度抑郁状态大学生反事实思维特点的初步研究
- Author:
Juanjuan WEI
;
Zhengzhi FENG
;
Wenna LU
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
undergraduate students;
depressive symptoms;
counterfactual thinking
- From:Journal of Third Military Medical University
2003;0(11):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective To investigate the properties of the abilities of spontaneous counterfactual thinking(SCFT) and induced counterfactual thinking(ICFT) produced by undergraduate students with depressive symptoms.Methods Undergraduates were induced to produce SCFT after recalling a negative event and ICFT after reading a story about a traffic event.Then the undergraduates were demanded to complete the counterfactual inference test(CIT).The amount and rationality of CFT and the scores of CIT were analyzed.Results Mild depressive students(MDS) generated a higher amount of SCFT than non-depressive students(NDS),midrange depressive students and severe depressive students(SVDS)(P0.05).The rationality of SCFT generated by four groups were significantly different(P
