Poor interpersonal problem solving as a mechanism of stress generation in depression among adolescent women.

Davila, Joanne; Hammen, Constance; Burge, Dorli; Paley, Blair; Daley, Shannon E.

doi:10.1037/0021-843x.104.4.592

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“…Hammen and her associates (Davila et al, 1995;Hammen, 1991Hammen, , 1992 have underscored the need to identify specific behaviors associated with stress generation. Our results elucidate part of what depressed persons are doing that promotes life stressors.…”

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Stress Generation, Avoidance Coping, and Depressive Symptoms: A 10-Year Model.

Moos

Holahan

Brennan

et al. 2005

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology

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This study examined (a) the role of avoidance coping in prospectively generating both chronic and acute life stressors and (b) the stress-generating role of avoidance coping as a prospective link to future depressive symptoms. Participants were 1,211 late-middle-aged individuals (500 women and 711 men) assessed 3 times over a 10-year period. As predicted, baseline avoidance coping was prospectively associated with both more chronic and more acute life stressors 4 years later. Furthermore, as predicted, these intervening life stressors linked baseline avoidance coping and depressive symptoms 10 years later, controlling for the influence of initial depressive symptoms. These findings broaden knowledge about the stress-generation process and elucidate a key mechanism through which avoidance coping is linked to depressive symptoms. Keywords life stressors; stress generation; coping strategies; avoidance coping; depressive symptoms Two cardinal assumptions guided early stress research: The stress process is initiated by life stressors, and these stressors cause psychological and physical distress. Contemporary research has provided a more refined understanding of the stress process and a revision of both of these assumptions. Research on stress generation has revealed that the stressorillness relationship can operate in both directions, with emotional distress producing new stressors (for a review, see Hammen, 1999). Moreover, an extensive body of research has identified the central role of coping strategies in individuals' differential vulnerability to life stressors (for a review, see Holahan, Moos, & Bonin, 1999). Surprisingly, these ideas about the role of stress generation and coping strategies in the stress process have evolved Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Charles J. Holahan, Department of Psychology, A8000, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712. holahan@psy.utexas.edu. independently. The purpose of this study was to integrate the stress-generation and coping perspectives to test a prospective model of depressive symptoms over a 10-year period. NIH Public AccessIn an important revision of traditional stress models, Hammen (1991) proposed that depressed individuals, through their depression and related behaviors, generate life stressors, which, in turn, increase subsequent depressive symptomatology. Hammen found that unipolar depressed women generated more interpersonal life stressors across a 1-year period than did control groups of bipolar, medically ill, and healthy individuals. Later research extended the stress-generation model to depressed late-adolescent women (Daley et al., 1997) and clinic-referred youngsters (Rudolph et al., 2000) and, in nonclinical samples, to children of depressed women (Adrian & Hammen, 1993;Hammen, Shih, & Brennan, 2004), wives in newlywed couples (Davila, Bradbury, Cohan, & Tochluk, 1997), and college students (Potthoff, Holahan, & Joiner, 1995). An association between depression and subsequent stressors has been identified for b...

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Stress Generation, Avoidance Coping, and Depressive Symptoms: A 10-Year Model.

Moos

Holahan

Brennan

et al. 2005

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology

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257

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“…Research has documented that depressive symptoms can arise or become exacerbated in the context of a variety of different interpersonal stressors (e.g., Brown and Harris, 1978;Davila et al, 1995). Many of these interpersonal stressors reflect behaviors by intimate partners that have implications for the relationship.…”

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Alcohol use, alcohol problems, and depressive symptomatology among newly married couples

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Leonard

Kearns-Bodkin

2006

Drug and Alcohol Dependence

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Background: Individuals married to heavy drinking spouses often have poorer health compared to those whose spouses are not heavy drinkers. This work examined how one spouse's alcohol involvement and alcohol-related problems affect his/her spouse's depressive symptomatology over time.Methods: Couples (N = 634) were assessed for past year alcohol involvement and alcohol-related problems (marital and non-marital) and depressive symptomatology when they applied for a marriage license. They were reassessed at their first and second anniversaries. Multilevel models were used to analyze the association between one spouse's alcohol involvement and alcohol problems and his/ her partner's depressive symptomatology over time.Results: Both husbands' and wives' marital alcohol problems were associated with wives' depressive symptoms. Neither spouses' alcohol consumption was associated with wives' depressive symptoms. Husbands' marriage-related alcohol problems and frequency of heavy drinking were related to husbands' depressive symptoms; however, wives' alcohol problems and alcohol use were unrelated to husbands' depression. Conclusions:In a community sample of married couples, we found that husbands' and wives' marital alcohol problems affect wives' depressive symptoms, but only husbands' marital alcohol problems affect husbands' depressive symptoms. Future work should consider other subgroups of alcohol-related problems in one spouse and their relation to depression in his/her partner.

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“…In the general population, depressed persons experience high rates of stressful social interactions and employ maladaptive coping strategies to deal with these events. These processes are thought to maintain depressed affect overtime (e.g., Davila, Hammen, Burge, Paley, & Daley, 1995;Hammen, 1991;Sigmon et al, 2007). Research is needed to determine whether stress and coping also perpetuates depressed affect in adults with mild ID.…”

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Coping Strategies of Adults with Mild Intellectual Disability for Stressful Social Interactions

Hartley

MacLean

2008

Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities

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Adults with mild intellectual disability (ID) experience stressful social interactions and often utilize maladaptive coping strategies to manage these interactions. We investigated the specific types of Active and Avoidant coping strategies reported by 114 adults with mild ID to deal with stressful social interactions. Open-ended responses to a sentence stem task were coded into five dimensions of Active and Avoidant coping. Adults with mild ID used Problem-Focused coping most frequently and this strategy was negatively correlated with psychological distress. Emotion-Focused coping was used infrequently but was also negatively related to psychological distress. Coping accounted for a significant portion of variance in psychological distress after controlling for perceptions of stressful social interactions. Findings have important implications for informing the development of interventions to enhance the ability of adults with mild ID to cope with stressful social interactions.

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Poor interpersonal problem solving as a mechanism of stress generation in depression among adolescent women.

Cited by 195 publications

References 42 publications

Stress Generation, Avoidance Coping, and Depressive Symptoms: A 10-Year Model.

Stress Generation, Avoidance Coping, and Depressive Symptoms: A 10-Year Model.

Alcohol use, alcohol problems, and depressive symptomatology among newly married couples

Coping Strategies of Adults with Mild Intellectual Disability for Stressful Social Interactions

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