Rumination and executive functions: Understanding cognitive vulnerability for psychopathology.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Both rumination, a pattern of repetitive, self-focused thought in response to distress, and deficits in executive functions (EFs), a set of cognitive abilities that facilitate higher-order thinking, have transdiagnostic associations with psychopathology. Although empirical studies suggest associations between EFs and rumination, this literature has not examined subtypes of rumination and different components of EFs. It also has not examined whether rumination and EFs explain overlapping variance in psychopathology, which is relevant to theoretical models suggesting that rumination might mediate the EF-psychopathology association.

Methods

We used structural equation modeling to examine the association between latent factors for two types of rumination (anger and

SUBMITTER: du Pont A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6751021 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature