Maladaptive blame-related action tendencies are associated with vulnerability to major depressive disorder.

ABSTRACT: Biases towards self-blaming emotions, such as self-contempt/disgust, were previously associated with vulnerability to major depressive disorder (MDD). Self-blaming emotions are thought to prompt specific action tendencies (e.g. "feeling like hiding"), which are likely to be more important for psychosocial functioning than the emotions themselves. Systematic investigations, however, of these action tendencies in MDD are lacking. Here, we investigated the role of blame-related action tendencies for MDD vulnerability and their relationship with blame-related emotions. 76 participants with medication-free remitted MDD and 44 healthy control (HC) participants without a history of MDD completed the value-related moral sentiment task, which measured their blame-related emotions during hypothetica

SUBMITTER: Duan S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8756141 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature