Are rumination and neuroticism genetically or environmentally distinct risk factors for psychopathology?

ABSTRACT: Neuroticism, a dispositional trait of heightened negative emotionality, is a vulnerability factor for psychopathology. Given neuroticism's strong association with rumination, a repetitive thought pattern that intensifies and prolongs emotions, some question whether these constructs capture the same or unique information about vulnerability for psychopathology. The present study examined whether neuroticism is genetically and environmentally distinct from two clinically relevant ruminative subtypes-anger and depressive rumination-and whether genetic and environmental influences specific to rumination versus shared with neuroticism overlap with internalizing and externalizing psychopathology. These analyses were conducted on 439 same-sex twin pairs in the Colorado Longitudinal Twin study. Ru

SUBMITTER: du Pont A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7261418 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature