Testing a Revised Interpersonal Theory of Depression Using a Laboratory Measure of Excessive Reassurance Seeking

Stewart, Jessica; Harkness, Kate L.

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“…This result is in line with the interpersonal relationship theory of depression [63]. Good interpersonal relationships enable college students to obtain more spiritual support and help, thus reducing the occurrence of anxiety and depression [64]. This study showed that eating habits and sleeping time were associated with anxiety symptom, depressive symptom, and the comorbidity of anxiety and depressive symptoms.…”

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Only Children Were Associated with Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms among College Students in China

Cheng

Jia

Wang

2020

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This study explored the prevalence of anxiety and depressive symptoms among college students and analyzed the associations between only children and anxiety and depressive symptoms in college students in China. A total of 645 college students, from three universities in Jinan, Shandong, China, were investigated by questionnaire. The self-designed general information questionnaire was used to collect the demographic information such as gender, age, only children or not and so on. The Self-rating Anxiety Scale and Self-rating Depression Scale were used to reflect the psychological state of college students. Binary logistic regression analysis was applied to analyze associated factors of anxiety and depressive symptoms. We have found that there were 25.7% college students with anxiety symptom, 22.2% college students with depressive symptom, and 18.3% college students with a comorbidity of anxiety and depressive symptoms. The prevalence of anxiety symptom, depressive symptom, and comorbidity of anxiety and depressive symptoms in only children was higher than those among non-only children. There were no differences between males and females in anxiety symptom, depressive symptom, and comorbidity of anxiety and depressive symptoms among all college students, only child college students and non-only child college students. Only children were associated with anxiety symptom, depressive symptom, comorbidity of anxiety and depressive symptoms after adjusting potential important confounding factors, such as professional category, grade, parental relationship, parenting style, interpersonal relationship, activity participation enthusiasm, sleeping time, and eating habits. The prevalence of anxiety and depressive symptoms among college students was high. We should pay more attention to the mental health of college students, especially that of only child college students.

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Only Children Were Associated with Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms among College Students in China

Cheng

Jia

Wang

2020

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“…Although depression is generally more strongly associated with suicide ideation than attempts (Nock et al 2013), it is possible that Interpersonal Loss events triggered depressive episodes in our sample, or worsened symptoms, which in turn were more proximally related to suicide attempts. Another possibility is that adolescents with more severe depressive symptoms generated more Interpersonal Loss events (e.g., partner-initiated break-ups or arguments; see Stewart and Harkness 2015, 2017) and these in turn contributed to suicide attempts. Future research employing more precise measures of clinical characteristics in time frames that definitively precede assessments of stress and STBs is needed to elucidate potential dynamic relations between depression, interpersonal stressors, and suicide attempts in youth.…”

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Life Stress and Suicide in Adolescents

Stewart

Shields

Esposito

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J Abnorm Child Psychol

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Stress exposure is central to theories of suicide. To advance understanding of the relation between stress and suicide, we examined whether specific, theoretically-pertinent life stressors were differentially related to suicidal thinking versus suicidal behaviors among hospitalized adolescents. Participants were 197 (144 female) adolescents aged 13 to 19 years old (M =15.61, SD = 1.48) recruited from an acute residential psychiatric treatment program. Participants were categorized into mutually exclusive groups: psychiatric controls (n = 38) with no lifetime history of suicide ideation or suicide attempts, suicide ideators (n = 99) with current ideation and no lifetime

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“…For example, excessive seeking of reassurance (Starr & Davila, 2008), negative evaluation from friends (Joiner & Timmons, 2002), and excessive self-disclosure regardless of social context (Rottenberg & Gotlib, 2004) have all been linked to depression. Such behaviors often solicit negative reactions from social partners, including domineering behavior, dismissiveness, or rejection (Horowitz, 2004; Locke et al 2017; McCullough, 2000; Stewart & Harkness, 2017; Starr & Davila, 2008), that, when an individual has strong emotional reactivity to close relationships, can cycle back to produce more negative emotions (Nezlek, Imbrie & Shean, 1994). Indeed, experience sampling studies show that social interactions characterized by less warm and more submissive behaviors are accompanied by more negative emotions (Sadikaj, Moskowitz, & Zuroff, 2011; Wang et al, 2014).…”

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Socioemotional Dynamics of Emotion Regulation and Depressive Symptoms: A Person‐Specific Network Approach

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Socioemotional processes engaged in daily life may afford and/or constrain individuals’ emotion regulation in ways that affect psychological health. Recent findings from experience sampling studies suggest that persistence of negative emotions (emotion inertia), the strength of relations among an individual’s negative emotions (density of the emotion network), and cycles of negative/aggressive interpersonal transactions are related to psychological health. Using multiple bursts of intensive experience sampling data obtained from 150 persons over one year, person-specific analysis, and impulse response analysis, this study quantifies the complex and interconnected socioemotional processes that surround individuals’ daily social interactions and on-going regulation of negative emotion in terms of recovery time. We also examine how this measure of regulatory inefficiency is related to interindividual differences and intraindividual change in level of depressive symptoms. Individuals with longer recovery times had higher overall level of depressive symptoms. As well, during periods where recovery time of sadness was longer than usual, individuals’ depressive symptoms were also higher than usual, particularly among individuals who experienced higher overall level of stressful life events. The findings and analysis highlight the utility of a person-specific network approach to study emotion regulation, how regulatory processes change over time, and potentially how planned changes in the configuration of individuals’ systems may contribute to psychological health.

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Testing a Revised Interpersonal Theory of Depression Using a Laboratory Measure of Excessive Reassurance Seeking

Abstract: ERS is a potent predictor of stress and subsequent depression. Our findings underscore the need to better understand factors (e.g., cognitions, partner characteristics) that may determine whether ERS behaviors beget interpersonal stress and rejection.

Cited by 30 publications

References 38 publications

Only Children Were Associated with Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms among College Students in China

Only Children Were Associated with Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms among College Students in China

Life Stress and Suicide in Adolescents

Socioemotional Dynamics of Emotion Regulation and Depressive Symptoms: A Person‐Specific Network Approach

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