Dimensions of Negative Thinking and the Relations with Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety in Children and Adolescents

Abstract

The current study sought to examine three forms of negative, repetitive thinking in non-clinical children and adolescents aged between 10 and 18. More specifically, this study addressed the degree to which stress-reactive rumination can be differentiated from other forms of repetitive thinking, such as emotion-focused rumination and worry, and the associations between the various indices of repetitive thinking and symptoms of anxiety and depression. Participants completed a battery of self-report questionnaires including measures of stressreactive rumination, emotion-focused rumination, worry, and symptoms of anxiety and depression. Results showed that stress-reactive rumination, emotion-focused rumination and worry are related but distinct forms of repetitive negative thinking. Positive associations were found between all indices of repetitive thinking and symptoms of depression and anxiety, but the effects of emotion-focused rumination disappeared when controlling for the other forms of repetitive thinking. The findings are discussed in the light of current theories and previous research, and directions for future research are provided.

Efficacy of Rajayoga Meditation on Positive Thinking: An Index for Self-Satisfaction and Happiness in Life

“…The short-term effect of positive reappraisal could be helpful for youth experiencing difficulties in managing negative effects [16]. Studies have shown that having positive emotions helped people to come out of depression, following aftermath of any crisis in life [17] and that these positive emotions helped in providing a broad mind-set [2].…”

Donut worry

“…As both these factors are associated with clinical depression and depressive symptoms in healthy subjects (Karg et al, 2011;Papageorgiou and Wells, 2004;Rood et al, 2010;Sharpley et al, 2014), we expected and confi rmed in our database that high ruminating S'-carriers showed a greater incidence of depressive symptoms. We propose that in combination, the stress vulnerability caused by carrying an S'-allele will be further exacerbated by the prolonging of stress responses caused by ruminative thinking .…”

“…In the current study, unless stated otherwise, rumination will be defi ned as a negative trait (brooding) while it is known to put the body in a state of long lasting cortisol levels even after the stressor disappeared (Zoccola and Dickerson, 2012). Complimentary evidence for the cognitive stress vulnerability that ruminative thinking poses can be found in the fact that it plays an important role in depression (Rood et al, 2010) and eating disorders (Birmingham and Firoz, 2006) and is a solid predictor for negative aff ect in healthy subjects (Roelofs et al, 2008). One of the few studies concerning rumination's relation to emotional eating even found that rumination was a mediator for the eff ect of daily stress on food intake among obese adults (Kubiak et al, 2008).…”

Procesamiento de la música en el primer episodio de trastorno depresivo mayor sin tratamiento

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