Depressive Disorders and Interpersonal Processes

Does Worrying Mean Caring Too Much? Interpersonal Prototypicality of Dimensional Worry Controlling for Social Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms

“…Hypotheses were based on models of the adaptive functions of depression (Carvalho et al, 2013;Nesse, 2000;Sloman, Price, Gilbert, & Gardner, 1994), which theorize that in social environments where individuals cannot successfully compete with dominant others, depressive anhedonia reduces energy expenditure toward dominant behaviors (e.g., assertiveness, sexual behavior, goal pursuit) and affiliation (social approach). In line with these models, depressive symptoms predict fewer affiliative-dominant behaviors such as eye-contact, facial expression, and language production (see Segrin, 2011). Given the expectation of low affiliation, we hypothesized that depressive symptoms would predict lower compassionate goals (Study 2).…”

“…Several implications follow. First, interpersonal models of worry and GAD (Newman & Erickson, 2010), social anxiety (e.g., Alden & Taylor, 2004), and depression (e.g., Segrin, 2011) theorize that interpersonal behavior may maintain symptoms, but often have emphasized single DSM categories and not accounted for shared symptom variability. Further research on interpersonal models of anxiety and depression should assess transdiagnostic symptoms and interpersonal features dimensionally.…”

Naturalistic interpersonal behavior patterns differentiate depression and anxiety symptoms in the community.

“…The ECR approach permits collecting data about interpersonal behavior and concurrent social cues close in time to the interpersonal event, thereby reducing recall bias, which is sometimes found with one-occasion measures particularly in distressed samples (Mogg, Mathews, & Weinman, 1987;Segrin, 2011).…”

A comparison of capacities for social cognition and metacognition in first episode and prolonged depression

“…Depression is the most prevalent psychiatric disorder in the western world and is estimated to have a point prevalence of around 4% in the Danish population (Olsen et al, 2004). A central trait of MDD is a marked impairment in social functioning (Joiner and Coyne, 1999;Segrin, 2010). Depressed individuals lead less active and satisfying social lives than never depressed persons and frequently report difficulties in their relationships with their spouse, children, and friends (Hirschfeld et al, 2000).…”