The Influence Of Controllable Moderators On Depression And The Intervention Of Psychological Displacement

Previous studies have shown that psychological control sources can effectively predict the level of depression.However,controllability determines the individual’s evaluation of internal and external environment,so it can be inferred that controllability has an impact on the relationship between psychological control sources and depression.In addition,combined with clinical cognitive narrative therapy,psychological displacement technology was used as an intervention to regulate the source of psychological control,in order to reduce the depression level of the subjects.In the first study,we conducted a questionnaire survey and an interview to investigate the moderating effect of control on depressive tendencies.The results showed that :(1)Psychological control had a significant positive predictive effect on depressive tendencies.(2)After taking controllability and interaction items into account,it was found that the explanatory degree of the model was significantly improved,and interaction items were significant.Controllability was the moderator variable of psychological control sources affecting the level of depression.The direction of adjustment was depression level decreased when controllability tended to increase.Study 2 was a 2(experimental group,control group)×2(pre-test,post-test)mixed experimental design.The subjects were divided into the experimental group and the control group.The control group had a month of Tang poetry copying,while the experimental group had a month of psychological displacement diary writing intervention after a week of guided practice.The results of ANOVA showed that the level of psychological control source and the level of depression decreased significantly before and after intervention.There was no change in the control group.It is proved that the intervention method is feasible and effective.The results of the psychological displacement diary text analysis showed that: with the intervention,compared with the first week,the frequency of words describing their own negative emotions in the text of the fourth week decreased by 8.43%,which was closer to the structure of neutral text.In the fourth week,the high frequency words changed from anxiety,stress and feeling to need,problem and understanding,which meant that the subjects improved their reflective ability,improved their emotional control and began to consider the solution direction of negative events.In conclusion,controllability is the moderating variable between psychological control source and depression level,and the lower the controllability,the better the predictive effect of psychological control source on depression level.The results of psychological control intervention show that psychological displacement technology can effectively improve the source of control and reduce the level of depression.