This article provides an overview of Stress Generation Methodology. Stress generation is a phenomenon in which individuals with depression or vulnerability to depression experience greater dependent stressful life events (SLEs), defined as stressors in which individuals at least partially contributed to occurrence. The stress generation process demonstrates how depressed individuals shape their environments, contributing to depression maintenance and exacerbation. Subsequent extensions have shown that other forms of psychopathology and a variety of cognitive and personality risk factors also predict stress generation. The focus on stress generation in women is accompanied by an emphasis on interpersonal stress. In addition to emphasizing communal SLEs, stress generation studies have also focused on communal vulnerability factors. However, men do not typically exhibit communal vulnerabilities to the degree that women do. Thus, it is also important to broaden the scope of vulnerability factors examined to include vulnerabilities associated with stress generation in men. These could include impulsivity, anger and aggression, and the need for autonomy and self-definition, all of which tend to be more common in males. Lastly, studies often employ self-report measures of SLEs which could artificially accentuate gender differences in stress generation findings. As existing studies may be more sensitive to detecting stress generation in women, future research should examine this phenomenon with the following methodological refinements: (a) use male-only or adequately sized samples with equal gender representation to test gender moderation effects, (b) expand the range of SLEs to include agentic and achievement-oriented stressors and use wider assessment windows, and (c) examine vulnerability factors that may be relevant to men such as impulsivity, anger, aggression, and the need for autonomy and self-definition. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

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关于压力生成方法的观点。


本文概述了压力生成方法。压力产生是一种现象，其中患有抑郁症或易患抑郁症的个体经历更大的依赖性压力生活事件 （SLE），SLE 定义为个体至少部分促成发生的压力源。压力产生过程展示了抑郁的人如何塑造他们的环境，从而导致抑郁的维持和恶化。随后的扩展表明，其他形式的精神病理学和各种认知和人格风险因素也可以预测压力的产生。对女性压力产生的关注伴随着对人际压力的强调。除了强调公共 SLE 外，压力产生研究还关注公共脆弱性因素。然而，男性通常不会像女性那样表现出社区脆弱性。因此，扩大检查的脆弱性因素的范围以包括与男性压力产生相关的脆弱性也很重要。这些可能包括冲动、愤怒和攻击性，以及对自主和自我定义的需要，所有这些都往往在男性中更为常见。最后，研究经常采用 SLE 的自我报告措施，这可能会人为地强调压力产生结果中的性别差异。 由于现有研究可能对检测女性压力的产生更敏感，未来的研究应通过以下方法改进来检查这一现象：（a） 使用仅限男性或大小合适且性别代表性相等的样本来测试性别调节效应，（b） 扩大 SLE 的范围以包括代理和以成就为导向的压力源，并使用更广泛的评估窗口， （c） 检查可能与男性相关的脆弱性因素，例如冲动、愤怒、攻击性以及对自主和自我定义的需要。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 （c） 2024 APA，保留所有权利）。