Intervention Effect of Emotional Working Memory Training on University Students With Depressive Symptom

Objective: To investigate the effects of emotional working memory training (EWM-T) on depressive symptoms and rumination among university students. Methods: The experimental group comprised 25 participants who underwent 21 days of emotional working memory training, which involved viewing a continuous stream of negative emotional face content on a grid and remembering the faces and locations presented on the grid. The control group consisted of 25 participants. The Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II), the Chinese version of the Character-Digital Breadth Test, and the Ruminative Responses Scale (RRS) were used as the pre- and post-test indicators.