感情制御困難傾向と活動性および気晴らしの結果との関連

Behavioral Activation (BA) is an effective treatment for depression. Although there are various manualized approaches if ones cannot simply activate in BA，the way to regulate ones’ emotion before behavior activation is not established. If ones have difficulty regulating ones’ emotion，they more frequently avoid than activate. Although most people use distraction as emotion-regulation strategies，distraction gets their moods worse. The purpose of this study was to examine difference in daily activities，and consequences of distraction by patterns of the difficulty in emotion regulation during coping for depression. The result of cluster analysis on Japanese version of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale(J-DERS) showed three clusters: (a)highly difficult emotion-regulating group (b)moderately difficult emotion-regulating group (c)low difficult emotion-regulating group. Moreover，it was indicated that highly difficult emotion-regulating group conducted more frequently avoidant responses from emotion and daily avoidance. Therefore，they had difficulty in confrontation with something to be dealt with. These results suggested that decreasing avoidant behaviors and instructions of effective distraction to regulate dysphoric moods before behavior activation is effective strategy for highly difficult emotion-regulating group.