Understanding the relationship between emotional and behavioral dysregulation: Emotional cascades

Selby, Edward A.; Anestis, Michael D.; Joiner, Thomas E.

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“…Key moderators increase the likelihood of developing bulimia, such as a relatively high reward sensitivity for food or exposure to a culturally thin ideal. Evidence exists for emotional cascades, whereby rumination heightens negative affect, which then drives individuals to binge eat (Selby et al 2008). Finally, early bulimic experiences, and depressive and externalizing symptoms, increase the likelihood that an individual will eventually adopt a ruminative response style (Nolen-Hoeksema et al 2007), potentially precipitating a downward spiral.…”

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Thinking About Rumination: The Scholarly Contributions and Intellectual Legacy of Susan Nolen-Hoeksema

Lyubomirsky

Layous

Chancellor

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Annu. Rev. Clin. Psychol.

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Our article reviews and celebrates Susan Nolen-Hoeksema's remarkable contributions to psychological and clinical science, focusing on her vast body of theoretical and empirical work and her influence on colleagues and students. Susan spent her career trying to understand how and why a style of regulating emotions called rumination increases vulnerability to depression and exacerbates and perpetuates negative moods. More broadly, we describe research by Susan and her colleagues on the predictors of depression in childhood and adolescence; gender differences in depression and rumination in adolescence and adulthood; roots, correlates, and adverse consequences of ruminative response styles; and rumination as a transdiagnostic risk factor for not only depression but also a host of psychological disorders, including anxiety, substance abuse, and eating disorders. Susan's intellectual legacy is evident in her impressive publication and citation record, the clinical applications of her work, and the flourishing careers of the students she mentored.

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Thinking About Rumination: The Scholarly Contributions and Intellectual Legacy of Susan Nolen-Hoeksema

Lyubomirsky

Layous

Chancellor

et al. 2015

Annu. Rev. Clin. Psychol.

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The Pernicious Blend of Rumination and Fearlessness in Non-Suicidal Self-Injury

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Recent theory suggests that people may engage in dysregulated behaviors, such as non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI), as a way to distract from rumination and emotional cascades (Selby et al. 2008); similarly, another theory suggests that people may not engage in self-injurious behavior without habituation to fear through repeated exposure to painful events (Joiner 2005). We hypothesized that both high rumination and habituation to the fear of pain may strongly influence NSSI because those who lack a fear of pain and ruminate intensely will not be afraid to inflict physical pain as a way to distract from negative affect. Participants were undergraduate students (N = 94), a large portion of whom reported engaging in NSSI. These participants were given measures of past painful experiences, rumination, and frequency of recent self-injury. Using hierarchical linear regression, evidence was found to support the interaction effect of rumination and painful/ provocative experiences on the frequency of NSSI, even after controlling for important variables such as age, gender, and sensation seeking. Although the interaction significantly predicted NSSI, it did not predict dysregulated eating behaviors or drinking to cope.

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“…According to the model, less extreme coping strategies (e.g., talking to a friend) are not engaging enough to distract from and change these high-intensity negative emotions. There is mounting evidence that rumination and negative affect interact to predict both NSSI and binge eating in cross-sectional (Selby, Anestis, & Joiner, 2008;Selby, Anestis, Bender, & Joiner, 2009) and ecological momentary assessment studies (Selby & Joiner, 2013) in samples which include participants from the community and college students. Furthermore, consistent with the model, laboratory studies have provided evidence that the experience of physical pain does decrease negative emotion in college students who engage in NSSI significantly more than non-painful, comparable stimuli (Bresin & Gordon, 2013) and that physical pain reduces negative affect for individuals with relatively high levels of emotional reactivity (Bresin, Gordon, Bender, Gordon, & Joiner, 2010).…”

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Etiological Models of Non-suicidal Self-Injury and Eating Disorders

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Kwan

Minnich

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Non-Suicidal Self-Injury in Eating Disorders

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The high rate of non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) among individuals with eating disorders is a well-documented and clinically significant phenomenon (Svirko and Hawton, Suicide Life Threat Behav 37:409-421, 2007). Several shared risk factors have been identified for disordered eating and NSSI. These common risk factors were examined within the context of etiological models that have the potential to explain why they so frequently co-occur. Thus, data on the relevance of the shared risk factors are reviewed within the framework of multiple conceptual models for eating disorders and/or NSSI. Moreover, empirical data and the explanatory potential for the overlapping nature of these maladaptive behaviors are evaluated for each model. A summary of the commonalities and limitations of the various etiological models is then presented. Finally, the chapter concludes by highlighting clinical implications and future directions for the advancement of knowledge regarding this pernicious problem, with a focus on the need for additional research and the development of integrative, comprehensive etiological models for non-suicidal self-injury and eating disorders.

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Understanding the relationship between emotional and behavioral dysregulation: Emotional cascades

Cited by 324 publications

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Thinking About Rumination: The Scholarly Contributions and Intellectual Legacy of Susan Nolen-Hoeksema

Thinking About Rumination: The Scholarly Contributions and Intellectual Legacy of Susan Nolen-Hoeksema

The Pernicious Blend of Rumination and Fearlessness in Non-Suicidal Self-Injury

Etiological Models of Non-suicidal Self-Injury and Eating Disorders

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