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愈抑郁愈愤怒？特质愤怒对抑郁的作用

The More Depressed You Are, the Angrier You Are? The Effect of Trait Anger on Depression

Psychology of China / 2022,4(4): 529-538 / 2022-05-07 488 912

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• Authors: 韩喆      刘芳芳      于明阳     
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  东北师范大学，长春

• Keywords: Trait anger; Depression; Mental stress; Anhedonia; Reward mechanism 特质愤怒；抑郁；精神压力；快感缺乏；奖赏机制
• Abstract: There was no focus on the relationship and function of human’s emotions in the field of psychology ever before. The theory of what to thinking hurts the spleen and anger prevailing over anxiety or depression were recorded in the Yellow Internal Classic, a classic of traditional Chinese medicine. It provides a useful inspiration for the interaction among the several emotions. It can be inferred that anger can regulate depression caused by excessive anxiety under certain conditions. This provides a useful inspiration for the psychological discussion in the field of interaction mechanism of emotions. Previous studies have shown a positive correlation between anger and depression. Through literature review, it is found that anger and depression are not a simple “co-disease” relationship, but there is a more complex relationship and mechanism between anger and depression. According to the theoretical literature of previous studies, this paper analyzes and summarizes the mediating effect of mental stress with lack of pleasure as a mediating variable on depression. Furthermore, we speculate and construct a mediating model of the mediating effect of psychological stress on depression with trait anger as a moderating variable and lack of pleasure as a mediating variable. Trait anger plays a mediating role in the model. It makes it possible for anger as a variable to regulate the relationship between mental stress and depression. It also suggests that more in-depth research can be carried out in this direction in the future, in order to provide a novel idea and method for the treatment of depression. 关于情绪之间的相互关系与作用，心理学界较少涉及。中医经典著作《黄体内经. 素问. 阴阳应象大论篇第五》所载“思伤脾，怒胜思”的学说，对情绪之间的相互影响提供了有益的启示。由此可以推测愤怒情绪在一定条件下可以调节忧思过度引起的抑郁。这对心理学关于情绪之间相互作用机制的探讨提供了有益的启示。以往的研究显示愤怒与抑郁呈正相关关系。通过文献梳理发现愤怒与抑郁并非简单的“共病”关系，二者之间存在更加复杂的关系和作用机制。根据以往研究的理论文献分析总结了以快感缺乏为中介变量的精神压力对抑郁影响的中介作用。并进一步推测、构建了特质愤怒作为调节变量，并以快感缺乏为中介变量的心理压力对抑郁影响的有调节的中介作用模型。特质愤怒在模型中具调节式中介变量的作用。使得愤怒作为变量调节精神压力与抑郁的关系成为了可能。这也提示未来可以在此方向上进行更加深入的研究，以期为抑郁症的治疗提供一条新颖的思路和方法。
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.35534/pc.0404065
• Cite: 韩喆，刘芳芳，于明阳．愈抑郁愈愤怒？特质愤怒对抑郁的作用［J］．中国心理学前沿，2022，4（4）：529-538．