Antecedents of stressful experiences: Depressive symptoms, self-esteem, gender, and coping.

Barker, David

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“…The finding of increased occurrences of future dependent life stressors has been replicated with diagnoses of depression in children and adolescents (Daley et al, 1997; Hammen & Brennan, 2001; Harkness, Lumley & Truss, 2008; Harkness & Stewart, 2009; Rudolph, 2008; Williamson, Birmaher, Anderson, Al-Shabbout & Ryan, 1995), men (Cui & Vaillant, 1997), women (Hammen, Shih & Brennan, 2004), treatment-seeking mothers (Feske et al, 2001), and adult patients (Chun, Cronkite & Moos, 2004; Harkness, Monroe, Simons & Thase, 1999). Similarly, the stress generation effect has been documented with depressive symptomatology in children and adolescents (Clements, Aber & Seidman, 2008; Hankin, Mermelstein & Roesch, 2007; Kercher & Rapee, 2009; Kercher, Rapee & Schniering, 2009; Shih, Abela & Starrs, 2009), college students (Barker, 2007; Gibb, Beevers, Andover & Holleran, 2006; Joiner, Wingate, Gencoz & Gencoz, 2005; Potthoff, Holahan & Joiner, 1995; Shih, 2006), company trainees (Orth, Robins & Meier, 2009), newly-wed women (Davila, Bradbury, Cohan & Tochluk, 1997), adults (Daley, Hammen, Davila & Burge, 1998), older adults (Moos et al, 2005), and ethnic minorities (Wingate & Joiner, 2004). Several of these studies, however, also reported higher rates of independent stressors (Clements et al, 2008; Harkness & Stewart, 2009; Kercher et al, 2009; Moos et al, 2005; Wingate & Joiner, 2004).…”

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“…In a study ( n =1211) focusing exclusively on avoidance coping (Holahan, Moos, Holahan, Brennan & Schutte, 2005), this coping style was prospectively predictive of chronic and episodic dependent stress occurring over a four-year interval. Extending these findings to other coping strategies, Barker (2007; n =241) assessed problem-focused, emotion-focused, and avoidant coping in relation to subsequent interpersonal and academic hassles experienced over a four-week interval. Again, avoidant coping was prospectively associated with interpersonal hassles.…”

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Stress generation in depression: A systematic review of the empirical literature and recommendations for future study

Liu

Alloy

2010

Clinical Psychology Review

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Within the past 20 years, depression research has given increasing consideration to the possibility of complex and reciprocal relations between stress and depression. Not only does stress increase risk for depression (i.e., a stress exposure model of depression), but depression, or depressogenic vulnerabilities, in turn, also increases susceptibility to stressful events that are at least in part influenced by the individual (i.e., stress generation; Hammen, 1991). The present review provides a systematic examination of the stress generation literature to date, with specific focus given to depression and depressogenic risk factors (i.e., past stress, negative cognitive styles, and personality and interpersonal vulnerabilities) as predictors of the stress generation effect, as well as gender differences in stress generation, the sequelae of generated stress, and the relative specificity of this phenomenon to depression. The research thus far appears most consistent in supporting the role of depression in predicting generated stress, although more research is still required. In addition to highlighting these findings, methodological limitations and conceptual gaps in the literature are discussed with the view of informing future research in this area.

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Stress generation in depression: A systematic review of the empirical literature and recommendations for future study

Liu

Alloy

2010

Clinical Psychology Review

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490

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“…Studies appear to consistently show that females report more chronic stressors related to interpersonal relationships (e.g., friends, relatives, acquaintances in social network) than males (Barker, 2007; Davis, Matthews, & Twamley, 1999; Liu & Alloy, 2010; McIntyre, Korn, & Matsuo, 2008; Shih, Eberhart, Hammen, & Brennan, 2006). A few studies have demonstrated that males experience more work-related and financial chronic stressors than women (Loosemore & Waters, 2004; Young & Korszun, 2010).…”

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The association between chronic stress type and C-reactive protein in the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis: does gender make a difference?

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Objective To examine how chronic stress in major life domains [relationship, work, sympathetic-caregiving, financial] relates to CVD risk, operationalized using the inflammatory marker C-Reactive Protein (CRP), and whether gender differences exist. Methods Participants were 6583 individuals aged 45 to 84 years, recruited as part of the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). Demographic and behavioral factors, health history, and chronic stress were self-reported. CRP was obtained through venous blood draw. Results In aggregate, gender by chronic stress interaction effects accounted for a significant, albeit small, amount of variance in CRP (p<.01). The sympathetic-caregiving stress by gender interaction was significant (p<.01); the work stress by gender effect approached significance (p=.05). Women with sympathetic-caregiving stress had higher CRP than those without, whereas no difference in CRP by stress group was observed for men. Conclusions Findings underscore the importance of considering gender as an effect modifier in analyses of stress – CVD risk relationships.

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“…Recent works have demonstrated that women experience more stressful life events than men (e.g., Barker, 2007;Davila, Bradbury, Cohan, & Tochluk, 1997;Rudolph & Hammen, 1999;Shih, Eberhart, Hammen, & Brennan, 2006). Moreover, women have been shown to be more reactive to stress than men (Rudolph & Flynn, 2007;Shih et al, 2006) such that women are more likely than men to be depressed in reaction to stressful life events (Kessler & McLeod, 1984;Leadbeater, Blatt, & Quinlan, 1995;Rudolph & Flynn, 2007;Shih et al, 2006).…”

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Gender Differences in Stress Generation: Examination of Interpersonal Predictors

Bouchard¹,

Shih²

2013

Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology

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Researchers have consistently found that women are twice as likely to be depressed as men (as reviewed in Nolen-hoeksema & hilt, 2009). one possible mechanism for this relationship is that women experience more interpersonal stressful life events for which they played a part in their occurrence, a process called stress generation (hammen, 2003). The present study investigated two interpersonal predictors of depression-neediness and co-rumination-as mediators of the relationship between gender and stress generation. it was hypothesized that women would report higher levels of neediness and co-rumination, which would in turn predict the greater occurrence of interpersonal stress generation. Baseline levels of neediness and co-rumination were assessed in a sample of college students (N = 364), and depressive symptoms and frequency of dependent interpersonal stressors were assessed weekly for 8 weeks. hierarchical linear modeling was used to analyze gender differences and mediation models predicting stress generation. Both neediness and co-rumination explained women's higher levels of stress generation. These findings provide additional evidence suggesting that the interpersonal domain is of particular importance when considering gender differences in stress processes and depression.Two consistent findings in depression research are (1) women are twice as likely to develop depression and experience depressive symptoms than men (e.g., Kessler et al., 2003; reviewed in NolenHoeksema & Hilt, 2009) and (2) stressful life events play a role in the

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Antecedents of stressful experiences: Depressive symptoms, self-esteem, gender, and coping.

Cited by 24 publications

References 65 publications

Stress generation in depression: A systematic review of the empirical literature and recommendations for future study

Stress generation in depression: A systematic review of the empirical literature and recommendations for future study

The association between chronic stress type and C-reactive protein in the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis: does gender make a difference?

Gender Differences in Stress Generation: Examination of Interpersonal Predictors

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