Is Rumination a Risk and a Protective Factor?

Abstract: High trait positive affect (PA) protects against depressive symptoms through cognitive responses such as rumination. However, how rumination in response to positive emotions (positive rumination) protects against depressive symptoms while rumination in response to negative emotions (brooding) predicts depressive symptoms is poorly understood. We hypothesized that (a) positive rumination and brooding represent a shared cognitive process of affect amplification on distinct affective content and (b) less brooding and greater positive rumination would distinctly mediate greater trait PA in predicting fewer depressive symptoms. Our prospective design among 321 adults first compared three confirmatory factor analysis models of the relationship between brooding and positive rumination. We then utilized structural equation modeling to examine whether brooding and positive rumination mediated the relationship between trait PA and depressive symptoms, controlling for baseline depressive symp.... https://ejop.psychopen.eu/index.php/ejop/article/view/1279

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Is Rumination a Risk and a Protective Factor? ; volume:13 ; number:1 ; day:03 ; month:03 ; year:2017 ; Europe's journal of psychology ; 13, Heft 1 (03.03.2017)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Kaitlin A. Harding ; Amy Mezulis

Further information

• DOI: 10.5964/ejop.v13i1.1279
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2020101417115351472994
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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