Reactive Rumination: Outcomes, Mechanisms, and Developmental Antecedents
Reactive Rumination: Outcomes, Mechanisms, and Developmental Antecedents
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反应性反思:结果、机制和发展前因
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10.1002/9780470713853.ch3
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发表时间:
2008
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Matthew S. Robinson
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Jelena Spasojević;L. Alloy;L. Abramson;D. Maccoon;Matthew S. Robinson
Depressive rumination, generally conceptualized as an emotion regulation strategy or a metaemotional cognitive process (Gross, 1999), has been a topic of increasing theoretical and empirical interest over the last two decades. Rumination can be defined crudely as a perseverative self-focus that is recursive and persistent in nature. Several theorists, each in a somewhat different way, have argued for the importance of this kind of self-focus in the etiology of depression (eg, Carver & Scheier, 1981; Ingram, 1990; Pyszczynski & Greenberg, 1987; Teasdale, 1988). Response style theory, proposed by Nolen-Hoeksema (1987, 1991), followed in this tradition, but defined rumination in a more narrow way. Nolen-Hoeksema conceptualized depressive rumination as ‘‘repetitively focusing on the fact that one is depressed; on one’s symptoms of depression; and on the causes, meanings, and consequences of depressive symptoms’’(Nolen-Hoeksema, 1991, p. 569) and suggested that individuals who respond to mildly dysphoric or depressive mood by consistently engaging in rumination tend to have more persistent and severe depressive episodes than those who respond to negative affect by distracting themselves from it. Thus, Nolen-Hoeksema’s ruminative response style represents a specific emotion-and self-focused coping style. In contrast to other prevailing cognitive theories of depression that emphasize the content of negative cognitions that arise in response to stressful life events (ie,