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Effects of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy on the experience of positive emotions in daily life:
A randomized controlled trial
Nicole Geschwind
Centre for Psychology of Learning and Psychopathology; Research Group on Health Psychology
Overview
• Positive emotions, why bother?
• Experience Sampling Method
• Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy
• MindMaastricht trial
• Results
• Conclusion
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Introduction: Positive Emotions
• Associated with longevity and health
• Positive and negative emotions = different subsystems
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(Cohn & Fredrickson, 2009; Geschwind, 2011)
Emotions
Negative emotions
Positive Emotions
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Experience Sampling Method
• At random
• 10 times per day
• 6 days
• Emotions
• Situation / activity
Right now, I feel… not at all moderately very Cheerful 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Anxious 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Daily life person-context interaction
Experience sampling procedure
Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5
beep
beep
beep
beep
beep
beep
beep
beep
beep
beep
one ESM day
7.30 22.30
Positive
emotions
Activity
Pleasantness
Day 6
Daily-
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context
Daily-Life Reward Experience
Daily life
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How to increase positive emotions?
a t t e n t i o n a l
b r o a d e n i n g
Positive emotions
Reward
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy
• 8 week training, 10-15 participants
• In touch with and aware of the present moment
• Non-evaluative and non-judgmental
• Daily homework: attention exercises
MindMaastricht RCT
• Sample: 130 participants with residual symptoms of depression, not currently depressed
6 days Experience Sampling
6 days Experience Sampling
Mindfulness Training (MBCT)
Control
Positive emotions
• Happy
• Satisfied
• Strong
• Enthusiastic
alpha = 0.89
• Curious
• Animated
• Inspired
• [Relaxed]
Pleasantness of current activity
• Factor analysis:
– I enjoy this activity
– I am skilled at doing this
– This activity requires effort
– I would prefer to do s.th. else
– [I feel I’m being active]
– [This is a challenge]
Activity Pleasantness
Results
Total Entries Invalid Participants Entries per participant
12.453 559 (4 %) 130; 1 excluded
49 (SD 7.6)
After mindfulness training…
• More positive emotions
• Activities appraised as more pleasant
Also: Increased reward experience
Daily life
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before
after
PA change
CONTROL MBCT
pre
post
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Activity pleasantness change
CONTROL MBCT
pre
post
Reward Experience change
CONTROL MBCT
pre
post
Increases in positive emotions
low medium high
Reduction in residual symptoms
Related to reduction in residual symptoms?
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pre
post
low medium high
Reduction in residual symptoms
Related to reduction in residual symptoms?
pre
post
Reduction in residual symptoms
Related to reduction in residual symptoms?
pre
post
But…
• Original idea behind MBCT: learn to disengage from automatic negative thinking patterns that arise during dysphoric mood and facilitate relapse (Teasdale, 2000)
• So: Rumination, worry, NA PA etc. ?
• Independent of changes in rumination, worry, NA, and stress sensitivity
Conclusions
• Reward experience can be learned
• Living in the moment more receptive higher experience of positive emotions during pleasant activities
• More research necessary into underlying mechanisms!
• MBCT has another, less often studied face: it facilitates the experience of positive emotions.
• Changes in PA-related variables possibly contribute to the protective effects of MBCT against future relapse
Conclusions
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Thanks to:
(VENI grant nr 916.76.147 to Dr Wichers)
Marieke Wichers
Jim van Os
Frenk Peeters
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Geschwind, N., Peeters, F., Drukker, M., van Os, J., & Wichers, M. (2011). Mindfulness training increases momentary positive emotions and reward experience in adults vulnerable to depression: A randomized controlled trial. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 79(5), 618-628.
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References • Geschwind et al. (2010). Meeting risk with resilience: high daily life reward experience preserves mental health. Acta Psychiatrica
Scandinavica.
• Geschwind et al. (2009). The role of affective processing in vulnerability to and resilience against depression. In C. M. Pariante, R. M. Nesse, D. Nutt & L. Wolpert (Eds.), Understanding Depression: A translational approach (pp. 181-192). NY: New York: Oxford University Press Inc.
• Wichers et al. (2007). Evidence that moment-to-moment variation in positive emotions buffer genetic risk for depression: a momentary assessment twin study. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 115, 451-457.
• Wichers et al. (2009). Reduced stress-sensitivity or increased reward experience: The psychological mechanism of response to antidepressant medication. Neuropsychopharmacology, 34, 923-931.
• Wichers et al. (2007). Genetic risk of depression and stress-induced negative affect in daily life. British Journal of Psychiatry, 191, 218-223.
• Wichers, Schrijvers, Geschwind et al. (2009). Mechanisms of gene-environment interactions in depression: Evidence that genes potentiate multiple sources of adversity. Psychological Medicine, 39, 1077–1086.
• Wichers et al. (2008). The psychology of psychiatric genetics: Evidence that positive emotions in females moderate genetic sensitivity to social stress associated with the BDNF Val(66)Met polymorphism. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 117, 699-704.
• Wichers, et al. (2008). Susceptibility to depression expressed as alterations in cortisol day curve: a cross-twin, cross-trait study. Psychosomatic Medicine, 70, 314-318.
• Wichers, Geschwind et al. (2009). Transition from stress sensitivity to a depressive state: longitudinal twin study. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 195(6), 498-503.
• Wichers, et al. (2008). The catechol-O-methyl transferase Val(158)Met polymorphism and experience of reward in the flow of daily life. Neuropsychopharmacology, 33, 3030-3036.
• Wichers, Geschwind et al. (2010). Scars in depression: is a conceptual shift necessary to solve the puzzle? Psychological Medicine, 40(3), 359-365.
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Introduction: Positive Affect (PA)
• PA reduces stress-induced psychiatric and physiological symptoms
• PA also reduces the expression of genetic vulnerability for affective disorders
• Effects PA > NA on resilience & well-being (Cohn & Fredrickson,
2009)
• PA preserves, and possibly improves, mental health.
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NA change pre/post: Mindfulness vs. Controls
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Maastricht
Measuring emotions in daily life?
• NA and PA fluctuate…
NA PA
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• 49 depressed patients (randomized to Imipramine or placebo)
Week 1
• HAM early improvement
• PA early change
• NA early change
Method
Week 6:
• HAM score
• Remission
• Recovery
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Reward Experience & Resilience • High reward experience should contribute to the
preservation of mental health – Especially when at risk for low mood
• Childhood trauma • Recent Stressful Life Events • Genetic Risk
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Differential relapse prevention effect
• Finding: MBCT reduces relapse only in 3+ patients, not in 2- (Teasdale et al., 2000; Ma & Teasdale, 2004)
• Assumptions:
1) MBCT works mainly via cognitive processes (Rumination , meta-cognition )
2) Automatic negative thinking patterns stronger and more related to relapse in 3+
• Consequence: Most studies exclude 2-
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Differential relapse prevention effect
• (Teasdale et al., 2000; Ma & Teasdale, 2004)
2-
3+
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Assumptions
1) MBCT works mainly via cognitive processes (rumination , meta-cognition )
2) Automatic negative thinking patterns stronger and more related to relapse in 3+
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Consequence
• Most later studies excluded 2- patients: – Bondolfi, et al., 2010; Godfrin & van Heeringen, 2010; Kuyken, et al., 2008;
Kuyken, et al., 2010; Segal, et al., 2010
• Even when not directly examining risk for relapse: – Barnhofer, et al., 2009; Hargus et al., 2010; Kingston et al., 2007
2-
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Exclusion justified?
• Arguments against exclusion:
– Subpopulation overlap argument
– Diversity argument
– Continuity argument
– Confounder argument
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Subpopulation overlap argument
3+
2-
2-
3+
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Diversity Argument (1)
• Diverse effects:
– Changes in emotion regulation:
• Positive emotions increase (Geschwind et al, submitted; Fredrickson et al.,
2008)
• Upward spiral (Garland et al, 2010)
• Related to reduction of dep. symptoms
– Various other reported effects works on more basal level
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Diversity Argument (2)
• Beneficial for diverse populations not suffering from major depression
• working people, cancer, pregnancy, anxiety, …
effectiveness
No dep 2- 3+
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Continuity Argument (1)
• Relapse = dichotomous
• Evidence for continuity of symptoms
• Problems with dichotomous classifications
• Useful to examine continuous measures
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Continuity Argument (2)
• Residual depressive symptoms
– Continuous
– Predict risk for relapse (Judd et al., 1999; Nierenberg, et al., 2010)
– MBCT associated with reduction residual symptoms (Kenny &
Williams, 2007; Kingston, et al., 2007; Mathew et al., 2010)
– No comparison yet between 2- and 3+
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Confounder argument
• MBCT vs TAU trial in 3+ patients only (Segal et al.,
2010)
– MBCT only effective among unstable remitters = with
intermittent residual symptoms
– No effect in stable remitters = residual symptoms <7
– Patients with residual symptoms were actually excluded in original studies!
– MBCT in 2- with residual symptoms???
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Hypotheses
• MBCT residual symptoms
• Independent of 2- or 3+ subgroup
= no interaction treatment*subgroup
• Explore whether MBCT works via diff. mechanisms in the 2- and 3+ subgroups (rumination, worry, mindfulness positive and negative emotions)
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No evidence for interaction Treatment*Subgroup
Measure β p
HDRS 0.45 0.162
IDS 0.33 0.240
Rumination 0.34 0.206
Worry 0.23 0.332
KIMS observe 0.09 0.743
KIMS describe 0.25 0.236
KIMS act aware -0.18 0.522
KIMS accept -0.27 0.236
PA 0.08 0.210
NA -0.07 0.284
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By subgroup: Hamilton Depression Rating Scale
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HD
RS
2- TAU
3+ TAU
2- MBCT
3+ MBCT
MBCT
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Same for self-report…
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ID
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2- TAU
3+ TAU
2- MBCT
3+ MBCT
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Effect Size of Treatment per Subgroup
-0,8
-0,7
-0,6
-0,5
-0,4
-0,3
-0,2
-0,1
0
HDRS IDS-SR Rumination Worry
2-
3+
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Conclusions
• Need to re-examine and reconsider:
– MBCT just as effective in 2- as in 3+
– At least when looking at participants with residual symptoms