Assessing relinquishment of positivity as a central symptom bridging anxiety and depression.

ABSTRACT: Anxiety and depression are often comorbid and chronic disorders. Previous research indicates that positivity relinquishment is a moderator of anxiety and depression, such that only anxious individuals who endorsed relinquishing positivity were also depressed. We sought to extend those findings by conducting three network analyses with self-report measures of anxiety, depression, activity avoidance, and perceived positivity of avoided activities (N = 104). We pre-registered our hypothesis for the first two networks that relinquishment of positivity would emerge as a central bridge symptom between anxiety and depressive symptoms. After combining redundant nodes, we estimated three networks and investigated the bridge symptoms in each network. Relinquishment of positivity bridged the symptom

SUBMITTER: Calafiore C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11496000 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature