Ruminative and mood associations for age differences in social and directive reasons to think and talk about life experiences.

ABSTRACT: Reminiscing, or thinking and talking about our past experiences, can have mood enhancing effects. Rumination is implicated in reminiscence and yet has been shown to have negative effects on mood, with important differences between age groups. However, age differences in the effects of reminiscing on mood, and particularly the effects of rumination within reminiscence, are less explored. Two different age groups completed self-report measures of the positive directive (planning for present and future behaviors) and social (communication) uses of autobiographical memory, as well as maladaptive rumination and depression symptom severity. Young participants (Mean age: 21.82) ruminated more and reported greater frequency of using the directive and social functions of thinking and talking about

SUBMITTER: Ricarte JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7365414 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature