The form and function of depressive rumination

Bartoskova, Magda; Ševčíková, Marcela; Durisko, Zachary; Maslej, Marta M.; Barbic, Skye; Preiss, Marek; Andrews, Paul W.

doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2018.01.005

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“…(2015) and Thomas, Raynor and Ribott (2014) who reported that rumination and depression are markedly correlated.However, this result is not in agreement with Bartoskova et al (2018) who concluded that rumination is an adaptive operation in which individuals ruminate in an attempt to solve their troubles after that successful problem may happen.…”

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Ruminative Thoughts and Severity of Depression among Patients with Depressive Disorders

AbdElshakour

El-Boraie

Ibrahim

2018

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Background:Depressive disorder is the most prevalent psychiatric disorder that influences 350 million individuals worldwide. It negatively affects social, familial functioning, and work productivity due to depressive symptoms that include disturbed eating and sleep habits, lack the desire to do things, impaired social and occupational functioning, and inability to maintain successful relationship besides the depressed mood. In response to their depressive symptoms, some individuals use ruminative thoughts to identify why they feel depressed in an attempt solve their problem. However, rumination exaggerates the depressive symptoms and may impair social problem solving.

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“…This tool was translated into Arabic by Ghareeb. Scoring system interpretation includes; absence of depression (0-13), mild depression(14)(15)(16)(17)(18)(19), moderate(20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25)(26)(27)(28), and severe depression (29-63)(Smarr& Keefer, 2011).…”

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Ruminative Thoughts and Severity of Depression among Patients with Depressive Disorders

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Ibrahim

2018

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“…They highlight its analytical nature, suggesting that individuals with MDD engage in a process of analysis to identify the causes of their problems and find optimal solutions. In turn, finding effective ways to address the triggering problems is hypothesized to alleviate depressive symptoms, eventually leading to remission from MDD (Andrews and Thomson, 2009;Bartoskova et al, 2018).…”

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Testing the Analytical Rumination Hypothesis: Exploring the Longitudinal Effects of Problem Solving Analysis on Depression

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Depression is a mental health condition for which individuals commonly seek treatment. However, depressive episodes often resolve on their own, even without treatment. One evolutionary perspective, the analytical rumination hypothesis (ARH), suggests that depression occurs in response to complex problems. According to this perspective, depressive symptoms promote analytical rumination, i.e., distraction-resistant thoughts about the causes of problems [causal analysis (CA)] and how they can be solved [problem-solving analysis (PSA)]. By helping individuals solve complex problems, analytical rumination may contribute to remission from depression. The aim of this study was to investigate (1) whether clinically-depressed individuals have more complex problems and engage in more CA and PSA than non-depressed and (2) the effects of CA and PSA on decreases in problem complexity, depressive symptoms, and remission from the depression. Samples of 85 patients were treated for depression with antidepressants and psychotherapy, and 49 healthy subjects were assessed three times over a 4-month period (at Weeks 1, 5, and 16). At each assessment, they completed measures of depression, analytical rumination, and problem complexity. Depressed individuals reported having more complex problems and engaging in more CA than non-depressed participants. The two groups engaged in a similar degree of PSA. Findings from a multiple regression suggested that more PSA at Week 1 was related to a decrease in depressive symptoms at Week 5, even after controlling for baseline depression, problem number, and complexity. PSA at Week 1 did not predict the remission after hospitalization or at follow-up; however, having less complex problems at the baseline made it more likely that a patient would later remit. Engaging in more CA or PSA at Week 1 did not affect perceived problem complexity at Week 5 or at follow-up. However, these findings were not statistically significant when influential observations (or outliers) were included in the analysis. Our findings suggest that PSA may contribute to a decrease in symptoms of depression over time. However, alleviations in problem complexity and remission might only be achieved if problems are initially less complex. Future directions involve exploring how PSA might contribute to decreases in depressive symptoms and other mechanisms underlying remission from depression.

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“…Lacking attention exibility that engages with positive information and disengages from salient negative information might cause the failure of adaptive emotion regulation processes [41]. The rumination refers to the repeated thinking and analysis of negative emotions and feelings, which affects the onset of depression [42]. Individuals with ruminant traits are likely to be immersed in depression and anxiety and unable to extricate themselves because the overwhelming news reports have already created a repressive emotional atmosphere.…”

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Mental health status of Chinese residents during the COVID-19 epidemic

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Liu

Zhang

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Background: To investigate the mental health status of Chinese residents during the epidemic of COVID-19, identify the positive and negative factors and explore the regulatory effects of negative cognitive processing bias on mental health.Methods: Using a general questionnaire, such as the self-rating depression scale, the state anxiety inventory, and the negative cognitive processing bias questionnaire, an internet-based survey was conducted on 60199 residents in China. An ordered multiple logistic regression analysis model was used to analyze the collected data. Results: The survey showed that the incidences of mild, moderate, and severe depressive symptoms were 62.65%, 11.33%, and 6.14%, respectively, and that of mild, moderate and severe anxiety symptoms were 33.21%, 41.27%, and 22.99%, respectively. The results of ordered multiple logistic regression analysis showed that factors, such as female gender, age more than 55 years elderly, high school education level, medical staff, marital conflicts, negative attention bias, rumination, and death rate positively affected the level of depressive and anxiety symptoms. The good family functionality, democratic working atmosphere, and a myriad of social activities negatively affected the level of depressive and anxiety symptoms.Conclusion: The Chinese residents exhibited a high prevalence of anxiety and depressive symptoms during the epidemic. Thus, psychological interventions should focus on the vulnerable groups, and cognitive training should focus on reducing the negative cognitive processing bias that might be an effective way to alleviate the mental stress of the general public during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The form and function of depressive rumination

Cited by 34 publications

References 81 publications

Ruminative Thoughts and Severity of Depression among Patients with Depressive Disorders

Ruminative Thoughts and Severity of Depression among Patients with Depressive Disorders

Testing the Analytical Rumination Hypothesis: Exploring the Longitudinal Effects of Problem Solving Analysis on Depression

Mental health status of Chinese residents during the COVID-19 epidemic

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