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Boundary conditions and buffering effects: Does depressive symptomology moderate the effectiveness of self–distancing for facilitating adaptive emotional analysis?

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Kross, Ethan, Ayduk, Özlem·2009·Journal of Research in Personality

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Recent findings indicate that a critical factor determining whether people's attempts to adaptively analyze negative experiences succeed or fail is the type of self-perspective (self-immersed vs. self-distanced) they adopt while analyzing negative feelings. The present research examined whether these findings generalize to individuals displaying high levels of depression symptoms who are particularly vulnerable to rumination. Findings revealed that the effectiveness of self-distancing for attenuating emotional reactivity increased linearly with depression symptoms. Moreover, mediation analyses revealed that participants tendency to recount vs reconstrue their experience accounted for the regulatory effects of self-distancing on emotional reactivity regardless of depression symptoms.

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  • Experimental techniques designed to promote observational distance from the self have distress-reducing benefits in individuals with psychopathology.

    “studies on individuals with psychopathology have found distress-reducing benefits from experimental techniques designed to promote an observational distance from the self”

    From United we stand: emphasizing commonalities across cognitive-behavioral therapies. (2013) · cites this paper as Kross & Ayduk, 2009

    The Discussion reports lower emotional reactivity after self-distanced analysis among participants with high depressive symptoms. But the Conclusions explicitly state that BDI scores are not clinical diagnoses and that the findings cannot establish whether the technique benefits clinically depressed individuals. The claim's reference to individuals with psychopathology therefore exceeds the population studied; page numbers are not provided in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.88)

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Authors
Kross, E., & Ayduk, Ö.
Affiliations
  • University of Michigan (US)
  • University of California, Berkeley (US)
Corresponding author
Kross, Ethan
Venue
Journal of Research in Personality
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2009-10
Volume
43
Issue
5
Pages
923-927
ISSN
0092-6566 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2271622338
Cited by
86
References
25
Citations by year
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FWCI
7.62
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Journal of Research in Personality (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
National Institute of Mental Health (R37MH039349)
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
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
Keywords
self-distancing, depressive symptoms, rumination, emotional reactivity, self-perspective, buffering effect, boundary conditions

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