Emotional inertia contributes to depressive symptoms beyond perseverative thinking

Brose, Annette; Schmiedek, Florian; Koval, Peter; Kuppens, Peter

doi:10.1080/02699931.2014.916252

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“…While AS was positively associated with the outcomes among low-dysphoria smokers, emotion regulatory cognitions about smoking did not differ across lower and higher AS for smokers with higher dysphoria. It is possible that when dysphoria is higher, smokers may experience emotional inertia that is often associated with depressive symptoms, 33 and therefore, the role of AS on emotion regulatory cognitions is blunted. That is, dysphoria may be such a potent precipitant of negative thoughts about quitting, beliefs that smoking reduces negative affect, and the tendency to respond to negative thoughts with quitting, that concomitant AS does not further impact these cognitive processes.…”

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Interplay of dysphoria and anxiety sensitivity in relation to emotion regulatory cognitions of smoking among treatment‐seeking smokers

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Background and Objectives There is evidence that anxiety sensitivity (AS) plays a role in the maintenance of smoking, yet there is little understanding of how AS interplays with other affective symptomatology variables that are also related to smoking, such as dysphoria. Therefore, the current cross-sectional study evaluated the interactive effects of AS and dysphoria on emotion regulatory cognitions, including smoking negative affect reduction expectancies, perceived barriers for cessation, and smoking-specific experiential avoidance. Method A total of 448 adult treatment-seeking daily smokers, who responded to study advertisements, were recruited to participate in a smoking cessation treatment trial (47.8% female; Mage = 37.2, SD =13.5). The current study utilized self-report baseline data from trial participants. Results After accounting for covariates, simple slope analyses revealed that AS was positively related to negative affect reduction expectancies (β = .03, p =.01), perceived barriers to cessation (β =.22, p = .002), and smoking avoidance and inflexibility (β =.07, p = .04), among smokers with lower (versus higher) levels of dysphoria. Conclusions The current findings suggest that higher levels of dysphoria may mitigate the relation between AS and emotion regulatory cognitions of smoking. Scientific Significance The current findings highlight the unique and additive clinical relevance of AS and dysphoria regarding emotion regulatory smoking cognitions that may impede quit success.

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Interplay of dysphoria and anxiety sensitivity in relation to emotion regulatory cognitions of smoking among treatment‐seeking smokers

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“…Spill-over and emotional inertia has also been observed in patients with internalizing disorders (Houben et al, 2015; Newman & Fisher, 2013; Peeters, Nicolson, Berkhof, Delespaul, & deVries, 2003). Among patients, spill-over and inertia predict the severity of symptoms (Brose, Schmiedek, Koval, & Kuppens, 2015; Houben et al, 2015; Koval, Kuppens, Allen, & Sheeber, 2012; Newman & Fisher, 2013), foreshadow future episodes (van de Leemput et al, 2014), improves with treatment (Newman & Fisher, 2013), and predict treatment response (Newman & Fisher, 2013). This may reflect maladaptive emotion regulation.…”

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Dispositional negativity: An integrative psychological and neurobiological perspective.

Shackman¹,

Tromp²,

Stockbridge³

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Psychological Bulletin

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Dispositional negativity—the propensity to experience and express more frequent, intense, or enduring negative affect—is a fundamental dimension of childhood temperament and adult personality. Elevated levels of dispositional negativity can have profound consequences for health, wealth, and happiness, drawing the attention of clinicians, researchers, and policy makers. Here, we highlight recent advances in our understanding of the psychological and neurobiological processes linking stable individual differences in dispositional negativity to momentary emotional states. Self-report data suggest that three key pathways—increased stressor reactivity, tonic increases in negative affect, and increased stressor exposure—explain most of the heightened negative affect that characterizes individuals with a more negative disposition. Of these three pathways, tonically elevated, indiscriminate negative affect appears to be most central to daily life and most relevant to the development of psychopathology. New behavioral and biological data provide insights into the neural systems underlying these three pathways and motivate the hypothesis that seemingly ‘tonic’ increases in negative affect may actually reflect increased reactivity to stressors that are remote, uncertain, or diffuse. Research focused on humans, monkeys, and rodents suggests that this indiscriminate negative affect reflects trait-like variation in the activity and connectivity of several key brain regions, including the central extended amygdala and parts of the prefrontal cortex. Collectively, these observations provide an integrative psychobiological framework for understanding the dynamic cascade of processes that bind emotional traits to emotional states and, ultimately, to emotional disorders and other kinds of adverse outcomes.

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“…A number of studies have linked heightened inertia, particularly of negative affect (NA), with indicators of increased vulnerability to depression, such as neuroticism (Suls et al, 1998), low self-esteem (Kuppens, Allen, et al, 2010), trait rumination (Koval, Kuppens, Allen, & Sheeber, 2012), subclinical depressive symptoms (Brose, Schmiedek, Koval, & Kuppens, 2015; Koval et al, 2013), and the 5-HTTLPR polymorphism (Kuppens, van Roekel, Verhagen, & Engels, 2015). A direct link between emotional inertia and future onset of MDD has also been demonstrated (Kuppens et al, 2012; van de Leemput et al, 2014).…”

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Affective Dynamics in Psychopathology

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We discuss three varieties of affective dynamics (affective instability, emotional inertia, and emotional differentiation). In each case, we suggest how these affective dynamics should be operationalized and measured in daily life using time-intensive methods, like ecological momentary assessment or ambulatory assessment, and recommend time-sensitive analyses that take into account not only the variability but also the temporal dependency of reports. Studies that explore how these affective dynamics are associated with psychological disorders and symptoms are reviewed, and we emphasize that these affective processes are within a nexus of other components of emotion regulation.

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Emotional inertia contributes to depressive symptoms beyond perseverative thinking

Cited by 101 publications

References 21 publications

Interplay of dysphoria and anxiety sensitivity in relation to emotion regulatory cognitions of smoking among treatment‐seeking smokers

Interplay of dysphoria and anxiety sensitivity in relation to emotion regulatory cognitions of smoking among treatment‐seeking smokers

Dispositional negativity: An integrative psychological and neurobiological perspective.

Affective Dynamics in Psychopathology

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