Attentional Biases and their Push and Pull with Rumination and Co-Rumination is Based on Depressive Symptoms: a Prospective Study of Adolescents.

ABSTRACT: Emotion regulation (ER) is central to adolescent mental health and wellbeing. However, the mechanisms underlying two common ER strategies - rumination and its interpersonal counterpart, co-rumination - are insufficiently understood in youth. Past research has documented that attentional disengagement biases are associated with rumination in adults, particularly among individuals with elevated depressive symptoms. Extending this line of research, the current study investigated whether attentional disengagement biases predicted rumination and co-rumination in adolescents based on their symptoms of depression. Using a multi-wave prospective design, 91 early adolescents (47% female, M_age = 12.87) completed a measure of depressive symptoms and the Affective Posner Task to assess earl

SUBMITTER: Rnic K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9686224 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature