Joint contributions of temperament and cognitive strategies in adolescent depressive symptoms
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Amy Mezulis, Ph.D.
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Event
Project Type
Completed quantitative research study
Primary Department
Clinical Psychology
Description
Trait Negative Affect (NA) and trait Positive Affect (PA) have been shown to predict utilization of maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation (ER) strategies, jointly predicting depressive symptoms within college-age populations. We aimed to explore these relations within an adolescent sample. 150 adolescents (Mage = 13.056, SDage = .901, 51.3% female) completed self-report measures during a laboratory visit. Results indicated that brooding significantly mediated NA (ï¢ = 1.631, p = .004), and PA (ï¢ = -0.418, p = .038) to depressive symptoms, while dampening did not (NA: ï¢ = 0.862, p = .077; PA: ï¢ = -0.145, p = .449).
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Joint contributions of temperament and cognitive strategies in adolescent depressive symptoms
Trait Negative Affect (NA) and trait Positive Affect (PA) have been shown to predict utilization of maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation (ER) strategies, jointly predicting depressive symptoms within college-age populations. We aimed to explore these relations within an adolescent sample. 150 adolescents (Mage = 13.056, SDage = .901, 51.3% female) completed self-report measures during a laboratory visit. Results indicated that brooding significantly mediated NA (ï¢ = 1.631, p = .004), and PA (ï¢ = -0.418, p = .038) to depressive symptoms, while dampening did not (NA: ï¢ = 0.862, p = .077; PA: ï¢ = -0.145, p = .449).