Within-person variations in self-focused attention and negative affect in depression and anxiety: A diary study
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This study examined within-person co-occurrence of self-focus, negative affect, and stress in a community sample of adolescents with or without emotional disorders. As part of a larger study, 278 adolescents were interviewed about emotional disorders. Later, they completed diary measures over three days, six times a day, reporting their current thoughts, affect, and levels of stress. Negative affect was independently related to both concurrent stress and self-focus. Importantly, the association between negative affect and self-focus was stronger among participants with a recent unipolar mood disorder, compared to those with an anxiety disorder, comorbid anxiety and depression, or those without an emotional disorder. The implications of these findings to theories of self-focus and its role in emotional disorders are discussed.
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When depressed youth engaged in self-focused thinking, they were more likely to report negative affect than non-depressed youth.
“However, when depressed youth engaged in self-focused thinking, they were more likely to report NA than non-depressed youth (Mor et al., 2010).”
From Mood Disorders in Everyday Life: A Systematic Review of Experience Sampling and Ecological Momentary Assessment Studies (2012) · cites this paper as Mor et al., 2010
In adolescents with current unipolar depression, being depressed was generally not associated with higher levels of negative affect.
“In this group, unlike in depressed adults (see Topic 1), being depressed was generally not associated with higher levels of NA.”
From Mood Disorders in Everyday Life: A Systematic Review of Experience Sampling and Ecological Momentary Assessment Studies (2012) · cites this paper as Mor et al. (2010)
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- Authors
- Mor, N., Doane, L. D., Adam, E. K., Mineka, S., Zinbarg, R. E., Griffith, J. W., Craske, M. G., Waters, A., & Nazarian, M.
- Affiliations
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem (IL)
- Northwestern University (US)
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- Corresponding author
- Mor, Nilly
- ORCID
- Venue
- Cognition and Emotion
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2008-12-04
- Volume
- 24
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 48-62
- ISSN
- 0269-9931 (ISSN-L)
- 1464-0600
- OpenAlex
- W2123903476
- Cited by
- 78
- References
- 58
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- FWCI
- 3.18
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Cognition & Emotion (publishedVersion)
- Griffith Research Online (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Mental Health Research Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Keywords
- self-focus, negative affect, stress, depression, anxiety, adolescents, unipolar mood disorders, anxiety disorders, comorbidities, within-person variability, daily diary
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