Rumination and anxiety mediate the effect of loneliness on depressed mood and sleep quality in college students.

Zawadzki, Matthew J.; Graham, Jennifer E.; Gerin, William

doi:10.1037/a0029007

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“…Namely, and replicating prior work (e.g. Nolen-Hoeksema & Morrow, 1991;Sontag & Graber, 2010;Verkuil et al, 2012;Zawadzki et al, 2013), greater perceived stress or stressful situations predict greater rumination. In turn, engaging in rumination can create and extend stress responding (e.g.…”

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“…Research has found that individuals engage in more rumination when they experience stress (Nolen-Hoeksema & Morrow, 1991;Sontag & Graber, 2010;Verkuil, Brosschot, Meerman, & Thayer, 2012;Zawadzki, Graham, & Gerin, 2013). When individuals ruminate they experience more negative emotional states (e.g.…”

Section: Why Would Rumination Be So Deleterious?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This repetitive and extended physiological responding is proposed to cause wear-andtear on the body that over time leads to disease (Brosschot, Gerin, & Thayer, 2006;Smyth et al, 2013). Such an explanation helps to account for why rumination has been found to be associated with a range of poor psychological health outcomes, including depression (Hong, 2007;Thomsen, Mehlsen, Christensen, & Zachariae, 2003;Zawadzki et al, 2013), poor sleep quality (Thomsen et al, 2003;Zawadzki et al, 2013) and anxiety (Nolen-Hoeksema, 2000). Indeed, some work has found evidence supporting rumination as explaining, at least in part, the association between perceived stress and depression (Sontag & Graber, 2010), perceived discrimination and depressive symptoms (Borders & Liang, 2011), loneliness and depressed mood and poor sleep quality .…”

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“…The proposed model was based on prior work testing longitudinal relationships between stress, rumination and health (e.g. Zawadzki et al, 2013), yet more longitudinal data are needed to test rumination as a mediator. In addition, ER is a dynamic process with many types of ER strategies occurring in response to the same emotion (Gross & Thompson, 2007).…”

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Rumination is independently associated with poor psychological health: Comparing emotion regulation strategies

Zawadzki

2015

Psychology & Health

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Objective: Emotion regulation (ER) strategies are related to psychological health, with most work examining reappraisal and suppression. Yet, emerging findings suggest that rumination may have stronger relationships with psychological health, namely depression, than other ER strategies. This paper replicated and extended this work by testing whether rumination was independently associated with a range of poor psychological health risk indicators and outcomes. In addition, it explored whether the reason why rumination is so deleterious to health is because it underlies the stress-health relationship. Design: Participants (n = 218) completed measures online. Main outcome measures: Surveys assessed ER strategies (reappraisal, suppression, proactive coping, emotion support seeking, and rumination), health risk indicators (hostility, optimism, self-esteem), health outcomes (depression, poor sleep quality, anxiety) and perceived chronic stress. Results: Multivariate regression analyses revealed rumination as the only ER strategy with a consistent independent effect on all the health risk indicators and outcomes. Bootstrapping analyses revealed indirect effects of perceived chronic stress on all the health variables via rumination. Conclusion: Rumination had a deleterious relationship with psychological health, perhaps because rumination underlies the relationship between stress and psychological health. Results have implications for interventions, particularly emphasizing the need to target ruminative thinking after stressful experiences.

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Section: Why Would Rumination Be So Deleterious?mentioning

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Section: Why Would Rumination Be So Deleterious?mentioning

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Rumination is independently associated with poor psychological health: Comparing emotion regulation strategies

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2015

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“…Ruminative and anxiety-producing thought patterns over time are associated with increased levels of depression and poor sleep quality (Irwin et al, 2006;Zawadzki, Graham et al, 2013a). Thus, people who do SSLAs that distract them from their negative thoughts would likely have better health outcomes, such has been found among cancer patients (Folkman & Moskowitz, 2004;Kennedy & LloydWilliams, 2009).…”

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Dimensions of self-selected leisure activities, trait coping and their relationships with sleep quality and depressive symptoms

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Thinking too much: How young people experience rumination in the context of loneliness

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2022

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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The recent rise in the prevalence of loneliness, particularly among young adults, coupled with its deleterious effects on wellbeing, makes understanding the issue of pressing concern. As most research on loneliness has focused on older adults, this study explored how 48 young adults aged 18-24 subjectively experienced loneliness through free association-based interviews. Participants were sampled from the four most deprived boroughs in London, as area deprivation has been associated with a higher prevalence of loneliness. This facilitates understanding of contributors and consequences of loneliness within this demographic group.In particular, the focus is on rumination arising from loneliness; while the link between the two is well-established quantitively, research into rumination and the context of ruminative thoughts in the context of loneliness remains sparse. Thus, this study aimed to understand the subjective experience of rumination in young adults whilst they experienced loneliness. Thematic analysis of interviews using ATLAS.ti 9 revealed five themes capturing these experiences: 'temporal experience of rumination', 'ruminating life and death', 'rumination related to others', 'outcomes of rumination' and 'coping with loneliness-related rumination'.Based upon knowledge of the nature and content of rumination, further research could devise models of rumination

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Rumination and anxiety mediate the effect of loneliness on depressed mood and sleep quality in college students.

Abstract: This study helps explain how loneliness dynamics relate to poor health and suggests specific points of departure for the development of interventions.

Cited by 181 publications

References 52 publications

Rumination is independently associated with poor psychological health: Comparing emotion regulation strategies

Rumination is independently associated with poor psychological health: Comparing emotion regulation strategies

Dimensions of self-selected leisure activities, trait coping and their relationships with sleep quality and depressive symptoms

Thinking too much: How young people experience rumination in the context of loneliness

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