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Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis
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Persisting negative thoughts are considered a hallmark of depression. Recent information-processing approaches have begun to uncover underlying mechanisms of depressive rumination. Despite marked advances in this area, there is a lack of integration between psychopathology and cognitive (neuro) science research. We propose the 'impaired disengagement' hypothesis as a unifying framework between both approaches. The core tenet of our model is that prolonged processing of self-referent material is due to impaired attentional disengagement from negative self-referent information. We discuss empirical evidence for this framework and outline future ways in which the causal predictions of this model can be tested. The proposed framework can account for effectiveness of various treatments for depression and may aid in devising new interventions to target depressive cognition.
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This theoretical review proposes that depressive rumination persists because attention is not effectively disengaged from negative self-focused material. It integrates cognitive and affective neuroscience evidence to argue that attentional control deficits, especially inhibition and set-shifting problems, contribute to brooding and may be treatment targets.
Key findings
- The model’s central claim is that prolonged processing of self-referent negative information arises from impaired attentional disengagement; normal cued rumination becomes pathological when conflict signaling or attentional control fails.
- Rumination is not unitary: factor analyses of the 22-item Ruminative Response Scale distinguish reflective pondering, a more adaptive problem-solving form, from depressive brooding, a more maladaptive and self-critical form; depression is specifically linked to high brooding.
- Reviewed evidence indicates that higher rumination correlates with poorer attentional control, including more perseverative errors on the Wisconsin Card Sorting Task in ruminators versus nonruminators, brooding-related inhibition deficits in antisaccade and task-switching paradigms, valence-specific biases for negative words, and difficulty removing negative material from working memory; these associations often remain after controlling for depression scores.
- Neuroscience clues include sustained amygdala responses to negative words related to rumination, reduced connectivity between conflict-monitoring and prefrontal control regions, and altered default-mode-network connectivity, suggesting rumination may become habitual and deplete attentional resources rather than reflect top-down sense-making.
Methods
- Theoretical and integrative review, not an empirical study; it proposes the impaired disengagement framework and reviews existing cognitive, psychopathological, and affective neuroscience literature.
- Draws on questionnaire measures such as the 22-item Ruminative Response Scale and its brooding/reflection factors, experimental tasks including the Wisconsin Card Sorting Task, antisaccade, dot probe, negative priming, Sternberg, and task-switching paradigms, and neuroimaging, ERP, and rTMS findings.
- No new sample or primary data are reported; causal claims are framed as hypotheses to be tested prospectively and experimentally.
Limitations
- The paper states that most empirical evidence is correlational, so the causal direction between rumination and information-processing cannot be firmly established; rumination could impair attentional control rather than the reverse.
- The paper states that prospective studies and experimental manipulation of attentional control are needed; many cited studies used undergraduates with elevated depressive symptoms, and some used non-selected samples that may reduce group differences.
- Evident from the text: as a theoretical review, it does not directly test the model’s causal predictions, and some cited findings are mixed, such as no rumination–inhibition association for negative faces in a depressed sample, possibly due to verbal versus pictorial material.
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“Interestingly, a larger switch cost when processing emotional material was associated with increased depressive brooding in response to stress.”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 2.3.2 Rumination and Valence-specific Attentional Bias
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- Not checked yetcites De Lissnyder, Koster, Goubert, Onraedt, & De Raedt, submitted
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“Results revealed that impaired cognitive control measured at time one, reflected in larger switch costs, moderated the association between stress and increased rumination during a stressful period later in time.”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 2.3.2 Rumination and Valence-specific Attentional Bias
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- Not checked yetcites De Lissnyder, Koster, Goubert, Onraedt, & De Raedt, submitted
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“We argue that information-processing factors play a crucial role in rumination.”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 2. The Impaired Disengagement Hypothesis
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“Important to note here, rumination is influenced by factors other than informationprocessing.”
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“The core tenet of our model is that prolonged processing of self-referent material is due to impaired attentional disengagement from negative self-referent information.”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > Abstract
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- The authors state this as an assumption: Internal or external stressors that conflict with a person's goals cue ruminative thoughts.
- Rests on an assumption: In most people, self-critical negative thoughts are not consistent with existing positive self-views.
- Rests on an assumption: In most people, conflict signaling is followed by disengagement of attention from negative thoughts.
- Rests on an assumption: After some time, self-critical thoughts or negative mood cause signaling of cognitive conflict.
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“Such inhibition impairments for negative information have been observed in dysphoric (Joormann, 2004) as well as clinically depressed individuals (Goeleven, De Raedt, Baert, & Koster, 2006).”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 2.3.2 Rumination and Valence-specific Attentional Bias
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“That is, negative affect, impaired problem solving and task impairments can become important cues that trigger further negative cognitions and rumination.”
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“The successful disengagement of attention from negative thoughts then allows to reappraise the situation or distract from the situation altogether by focusing attention on other (task-relevant) stimuli or more positive distracters.”
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“Indeed, there is emerging evidence that conflict signaling is reduced for negative material when individuals are in a negative mood state (Foti & Hajcak, 2010).”
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- Not checked yetcites Foti & Hajcak, 2010
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“Given that information-processing factors related to attention and executive function determine to a large extent the contents of working memory (Hasher & Zacks, 1988), these factors may play an important role.”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 2.1 Basic Assumptions of the Model
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- Not checked yetcites Hasher & Zacks, 1988
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“That is, individuals who are characterized by a difficulty to exercise attentional control in response to negative thoughts are likely to experience persistent rumination.”
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“Clearly, heightened levels of negative affect and/or the frequent encounter of stressful events are associated with enhanced attempts to understand these feelings and events (see also Martin & Tesser, 1996).”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 2.1 Basic Assumptions of the Model
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- Not checked yetcites Martin & Tesser, 1996
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“We postulate difficulty to disengage attention as the central engine that puts individuals at risk for heightened levels of rumination and brooding in particular.”
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“That is, the narrowing of attention is associated with heightened importance of the emotional information that is within the focus of attention, which in turns intensifies the emotional state causing a further reduction of goal space.”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > INSERT FIGURE 1 ABOUT HERE 2.2 Impaired Disengagement Hypothesis
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“Thus, it could be that the impaired inhibition of negative information enhances the amount of negative information that enters working memory.”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 2.3.2 Rumination and Valence-specific Attentional Bias
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“In line with emerging literature on emotion regulation, this signaling of conflict can occur at the automatic as well as at the strategic level (see Mauss, Bunge, & Gross, 2007).”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > INSERT FIGURE 1 ABOUT HERE 2.2 Impaired Disengagement Hypothesis
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- Not checked yetcites Mauss, Bunge, & Gross, 2007 source
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“Where initially rumination may be goaldirected and engage attentional resources, persistent rumination is characterized by reduced quality of thinking with attention being deployed to negative thoughts in a less constructive way (Nolen-Hoeksema et al., 2008).”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > INSERT FIGURE 1 ABOUT HERE 2.2 Impaired Disengagement Hypothesis
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- Not checked yetcites Nolen-Hoeksema et al., 2008 source
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“This persistent rumination is related to depressive rumination or brooding.”
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“This may be due to either impaired conflict signaling or intact conflict signaling but reduced attentional control.”
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“It is noteworthy though that this reduced attentional control is not of very large magnitude and mostly found in severely depressed individuals (see for a review, Joormann et al., 2007).”
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- Not checked yetcites Joormann et al., 2007
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“Engaging in rumination, be it pondering or brooding, in response to major life events, negative mood states, or relatively minor stressors (such as an awkward social encounter) is considered a normal, non-pathological process.”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 2.1 Basic Assumptions of the Model
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- Not checked yetcites Carver & Scheier, 1998
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“Importantly, previous research has shown that such persistent rumination is associated with impaired problem solving (Watkins & Moulds, 2005), reduced performance on other tasks (e.g., Lyubomirsky, Kasri, & Zehm, 2003), and with negative affect (Thomsen, Jorgensen, Mehlsen, & Zachariae, 2004).”
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- Not checked yetcites Watkins & Moulds, 2005
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“In the first option (i.e., impaired conflict signaling), in individuals with negative self schemas (cf.Clark et al., 1999), negative thoughts about oneself will elicit less cognitive conflict and therefore attentional resources will not be reallocated.”
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- Not checked yetcites Clark et al., 1999
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“Indeed, there is evidence that sad compared with positive mood is associated with a more focused attention and less creative thinking (Rowe, Hirsh, & Anderson, 2007).”
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- Not checked yetcites Rowe, Hirsh, & Anderson, 2007 source
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“it was shown that brooding was related to valence-specific inhibitory problems as well as set-shifting impairments”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 2.3.1 Rumination and General Attentional Control
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- Not checked yetcites De Lissnyder, Koster, Derakhshan, & De Raedt, 2010
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“This process of critical contextual and selfevaluation helps us make sense of events in our social environment or personal history (see Carver & Scheier, 1998).”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 2.1 Basic Assumptions of the Model
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- Not checked yetcites Carver & Scheier, 1998
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“Recently, important advances have been made in the area of cognitive methodology that allows to improve either attentional control functioning (see Siegle, Ghinassi, & Thase, 2007) or valence-specific processing biases (see MacLeod, Koster, & Fox, 2009).”
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“The ACC can be seen as a bridge between subcortical emotion processing and cognitive control, integrating signals from the ventral ACC and the dorsal ACC (Bush, Luu & Posner, 2000)”
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“First, emotional stimuli activate the amygdala (Zald, 2003), which in turn signals to the Anterior Cingulate Cortex (ACC).”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 3. Rumination and Attentional Control: Clues from Affective Neuroscience
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“Moreover, there are also clues from affective neuroscience pointing towards a strong association between rumination and attentional control impairments, and that depressive rumination is not linked to top-down attempts to understand negative life events and mood but to the depletion of attentional resources.”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 2.3.2 Rumination and Valence-specific Attentional Bias
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“Taken together, the evidence discussed above (see also Burwell & Shirk, 2007;Joormann, 2006) indicates that rumination and brooding in particular are associated with impairments and valence-specific biases in attentional control functions.”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 2.3.2 Rumination and Valence-specific Attentional Bias
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- Not checked yetcites Burwell & Shirk, 2007
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“The ruminative, self-referential focus of depressed patients has led to predictions of differences between this clinical group and controls in terms of DMN connectivity (Greicius, Flores, Menon, Glover, Solvason, Kenna, et al., 2007).”
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- Not checked yetcites Greicius et al., 2007 source
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“There is a wealth of research showing an enhanced amygdala activity upon the encounter of stress in depression, with the amygdala being primarily implicated in processing of negative emotions.”
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“Depression is associated with hypoactivation in cortical structures involved in attentional control which can be related to impaired emotion regulation.”
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“This increased amygdala activity has been linked to impaired cognitive control exerted by specific regions of the prefrontal cortex (Davidson, Pizzagalli, Nitschke, Putnam, 2002;Holmes & Pizzagalli, 2008) onto limbic emotion processing”
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“as reflected by lower regulatory activity in the frontal cortices as well as a reduced connectivity between the amygdala and these frontal cortex regions during emotion processing in depression.”
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“Instead these data provide some indication for the inability to or absence of effortful control over depressive cognition as rumination depletes attentional resources.”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 3. Rumination and Attentional Control: Clues from Affective Neuroscience
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“Due to these reasons there may remain an inward focused attention, with persistent rumination.”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 3. Rumination and Attentional Control: Clues from Affective Neuroscience
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“The brain structures involved in the default mode network (DMN) include precuneus/posterior cingulate cortex, medial prefrontal cortex and medial, lateral and inferior parietal cortex (Raichle, 2001).”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 3. Rumination and Attentional Control: Clues from Affective Neuroscience
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“This could mean that such cognitive control deficits may be causally related to the persistence of depressive cognition.”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 2.3.2 Rumination and Valence-specific Attentional Bias
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“the latter being involved in conflict monitoring and the facilitation of task-appropriate response selection (Macdonald, Cohen, Stenger & Carter, 2000).”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 3. Rumination and Attentional Control: Clues from Affective Neuroscience
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“with some of these studies showing that changes in cognitive processing of emotional information precede and predict the affective effects of antidepressant medication (see Browning, Holmes, & Harmer, 2010).”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 3. Rumination and Attentional Control: Clues from Affective Neuroscience
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“Taken together, the finding that self-reflective thoughts are associated with the DMN which is anti-correlated with areas involved in attentional control suggests that ruminative thought may be a habitual mode of thinking in depressed individuals, going over negative events past repeatedly, without marked difficulties to control this type of thinking, or to engage in the active reappraisal of”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 3. Rumination and Attentional Control: Clues from Affective Neuroscience
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“can readily change a habitual thinking style if attentional control is not improved first, and this could be the reason for the important problem of relapse.”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 3. Rumination and Attentional Control: Clues from Affective Neuroscience
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“Although deactivated during task performance, this network is active in the resting brain with a high degree of functional connectivity between regions.”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 3. Rumination and Attentional Control: Clues from Affective Neuroscience
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“With regard to psychological treatments, traditional cognitive therapy for depression which is considered one of the most efficacious treatments for depression(Hollon & Dimidjian, 2009) would use verbal interventions that target negative thinking through challenging some of the core beliefs that are reported by the depressed individual.”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 5. Future Challenges
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“As an increasing number of depressive episodes is associated with lower stress reactivity (Monroe & Hakness, 2005) and increasing risk of developing new depressive episodes (Keller, 2003), it could be useful to target attentional control as a proximal risk factors for the development of first or recurrent depressive episodes.”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 3. Rumination and Attentional Control: Clues from Affective Neuroscience
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- Not checked yetcites Keller, 2003 source
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“For instance, sleep disturbances are a well-established risk factor for depression, that are not only present during depressive episodes but also precede these episodes (Fichter, Kohlboeck, Quadflieg, Wyschkon, & Esser, 2009).”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 5. Future Challenges
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“At a broader level there is emerging cognitive as well as biological research pointing to the relevance of attentional factors in depression (De Raedt & Koster, 2010).”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 5. Future Challenges
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The authors state this as an assumption.
Internal or external stressors that conflict with a person's goals cue ruminative thoughts.
“We assume that certain internal (e.g., negative affect or memories) or external stressors that conflict with an individuals”
The paper relies on this without support.
In most people, self-critical negative thoughts are not consistent with existing positive self-views.
“In most individuals self-critical negative thoughts typically are not in line with existing positive self views.”
The paper relies on this without support.
In most people, conflict signaling is followed by disengagement of attention from negative thoughts.
“In most individuals this conflict signaling is followed by the disengagement of attention from negative thoughts.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Critical thinking ends when a solution is found or, without a solution, when the person uses automatic or deliberate emotion regulation.
“This critical thinking is terminated when a solution to the problem is reached or, in the absence of a solution, when the individual engages in either automatic or deliberate emotion regulation.”
The paper relies on this without support.
After some time, self-critical thoughts or negative mood cause signaling of cognitive conflict.
“Therefore after some time these thoughts (or the affiliated negative mood) will cause the signaling of cognitive conflict.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Rumination is a verbal process with a stronger link to verbal than pictorial material.
“this may be explained by the fact that rumination is a verbal processes with a stronger linkage to verbal compared with pictorial material.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Substantial correlational evidence supports an association between attentional control and rumination.
“Despite the wealth of correlational data indicating the link between attentional control and rumination, an important area of investigation will be to test the directional hypothesis that attentional factors contribute to the persistence of rumination.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Interpersonal therapy, like other well-studied psychotherapies, mainly employs verbal methods to improve depressive cognition.
“Other well-investigated forms of psychotherapy, such as interpersonal therapy also mainly use verbal techniques to improve depressive cognition.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Rumination drains attentional resources.
“Instead these data provide some indication for the inability to or absence of effortful control over depressive cognition as rumination depletes attentional resources.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Computerized attentional-control training programs can be distributed with relative ease.
“Computerized programs to improve attentional control are relatively easy to disseminate and may have protective effects in at-risk individuals (see Baert, De Raedt, & Koster, 2001;Siegle et al., 2007).”
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“Attentional difficulties, or deficits in the capacity to regulate attention and inhibit task-irrelevant information (Eysenck et al., 2007), are considered vulnerability factors for maintaining maladaptive cognitive processes (e.g., rumination, threat-related attentional biases) involved in internalizing psychopathologies, thereby increasing symptom severity and functional impairment (Derryberry &”
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“Although prior research had shown that attentional difficulties are associated with increased threat-related attentional biases, fears, and internalizing symptoms (Hsu et al., 2015; Koster et al., 2011; Van Bockstaele et al., 2014)”
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§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 3. Rumination and Attentional Control: Clues from Affective Neuroscience
“without marked difficulties to control this type of thinking, or to engage in the active reappraisal of events past.”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 3. Rumination and Attentional Control: Clues from Affective Neuroscience
“Instead these data provide some indication for the inability to or absence of effortful control over depressive cognition as rumination depletes attentional resources.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Koster, E. H. W., De Lissnyder, E., Derakshan, N., & De Raedt, R.
- Affiliations
- Ghent University (BE)
- Birkbeck, University of London (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Koster, Ernst H.W.
- ORCID
- Koster, Ernst H.W.
- Venue
- Clinical Psychology Review
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2011-02
- Volume
- 31
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 138-145
- ISSN
- 0272-7358 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2004506384
- Semantic Scholar
- 7ce6513d4b864a431a865140a494be9a6c95cef2
- Cited by
- 916
- References
- 106
- Citations by year
- 2026: 76 · 2025: 75 · 2024: 74 · 2023: 63 · 2022: 71 · 2021: 76 · 2020: 74 · 2019: 71 · 2018: 71 · 2017: 45 · 2016: 47 · 2015: 47 · 2014: 46 · 2013: 38 · 2012: 23
- FWCI
- 3.11
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- biblio.ugent.be
- Licence
- Locations
- Clinical Psychology Review (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- BIROn (Birkbeck, University of London) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (BOF10/GOA/014)
- Universiteit Gent (BOF10/GOA/014)
- Vlaamse regering
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Identity, Memory, and Therapy
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Keywords
- depressive rumination, attentional disengagement, depression, cognitive models of depression, depression treatment, cognitive intervention
- MeSH terms
- Attention, Cognition, Depression, Emotions, Humans
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