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“I don’t need your help!” Mood-dependent advice-taking in hypomania-prone individuals
Wade, M., Wigg, L., & Mansell, W
Journal of Experimental Psychopathology. 2012;3:639-649.
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Abstract
It has been suggested that mood-dependent social regulation maintains problematic mood states in people vulnerable to bipolar disorder. The aim of the present study was to investigate whether a non-clinical sample with a high vulnerability to hypomania (high HYP) followed less advice in a goal-directed task than low HYP participants following a positive versus negative mood induction using music. Students (N = 48) were provided with audio ‘advice’ given in an encouraging, neutral or critical tone of voice during a synonym-matching task. Although the high HYP participants followed more advice overall than the low HYP participants, their pattern of advice-taking showed a bias for ignoring advice more often in the positive mood condition and following advice more often in the negative mood condition. A post hoc analysis further revealed that the high HYP group tended to follow advice given in a critical tone more often when experiencing a negative mood than the low HYP group did. The findings are consistent with other findings of mood-dependent advice-taking in individuals vulnerable to bipolar symptoms.