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Associations between rejection sensitivity and mental health outcomes: A meta-analytic review

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Gao, Shuling, Assink, Mark, Cipriani, Andrea, Lin, Kangguang·2017·Clinical Psychology Review

Abstract

Rejection sensitivity is a personality disposition characterized by oversensitivity to social rejection. Using a three-level meta-analytic model, 75 studies were reviewed that examined associations between rejection sensitivity and five mental health outcomes: depression, anxiety, loneliness, borderline personality disorder, and body dysmorphic disorder. The results showed significant and moderate associations between rejection sensitivity and depression (pooled r=0.332; p<0.001), anxiety (pooled r=0.407; p<0.001), loneliness (pooled r=0.386; p<0.001), borderline personality disorder (pooled r=0.413; p<0.001), and body dysmorphic disorder (pooled r=0.428; p<0.001). The associations between rejection sensitivity and depression, anxiety, and borderline personality disorder varied by type of sample, but the associations were similar for clinical and non-clinical (i.e., community) samples. The association between rejection sensitivity and anxiety was negatively moderated by percentage of females in samples. The association between rejection sensitivity and depression was negatively moderated by length of follow-up. The longitudinal associations between rejection sensitivity and depression, anxiety, and loneliness were stable over time. Implications of the findings for both risk assessment and prevention and intervention strategies in mental health practice are discussed.

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    The field has made little progress in identifying the mechanisms of long-term effects of early interpersonal trauma on psychopathology.

    “However, the field has made little progress in identifying the mechanisms of these behavioral effects.”
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    There are discrepancies in the magnitude of reported associations between rejection sensitivity and mental health problems.

    “However, there are discrepancies in the magnitude of reported associations.”
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    The relation between psychological features of situations and behavior is mediated by five types of person variables.

    “The relation between psychological features of situations and behavior is assumed to be mediated by five types of person variables (Mischel, 1973): encoding and construction competencies, expectations and beliefs,”
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    It is not known whether rejection sensitivity is related to other negative mental health outcomes such as loneliness and body dysmorphic disorder.

    “However, based on the DSM-5 (American Psychiatric Association, 2013), we do not know whether rejection sensitivity is also related to other types of negative mental health outcomes such as loneliness and body dysmorphic disorder.”
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    If effect sizes are symmetrically distributed around the mean effect, the results are not affected by a form of bias.

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    Studies reporting on nonsignificant findings are less likely to be published than studies reporting on significant findings.

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    The five mental health problems examined in the present study overlap and are comorbid conditions at least to some extent.

    “the five mental health problems examined in the present study may overlap and be comorbid conditions at least to some extent.”
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    The results describe the community-sample mean correlation as 0.379, while Table 4 gives its mean correlation as 0.362. The value 0.379 is labeled as the mean Fisher's z in the table.

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    The study description says six included studies used experimental designs, whereas the limitations describe the included primary studies as non-experimental. This does not, by itself, establish whether those experiments can support causal conclusions about rejection sensitivity.

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Authors
Gao, S., Assink, M., Cipriani, A., & Lin, K.
Affiliations
  • Guangzhou Medical University (CN)
  • University of Amsterdam (NL)
  • University of Oxford (GB)
Corresponding author
Lin, Kangguang
Venue
Clinical Psychology Review
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2017-11
Volume
57
Pages
59-74
ISSN
0272-7358 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2746986792
Cited by
330
References
107
Citations by year
2026: 48 · 2025: 53 · 2024: 58 · 2023: 57 · 2022: 42 · 2021: 32 · 2020: 22 · 2019: 11 · 2018: 6
FWCI
1.65
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Clinical Psychology Review (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
Keywords
rejection sensitivity, social rejection, depression, anxiety, loneliness, borderline personality disorder, body dysmorphic disorder, personality traits, gender differences, longitudinal stability, risk assessment, prevention and intervention
MeSH terms
Anxiety Disorders, Borderline Personality Disorder, Depressive Disorder, Humans, Psychological Distance, Body Dysmorphic Disorders

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