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Rethinking Rumination
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The response styles theory ( Nolen-Hoeksema, 1991 ) was proposed to explain the insidious relationship between rumination and depression. We review the aspects of the response styles theory that have been well-supported, including evidence that rumination exacerbates depression, enhances negative thinking, impairs problem solving, interferes with instrumental behavior, and erodes social support. Next, we address contradictory and new findings. Specifically, rumination appears to more consistently predict the onset of depression rather than the duration, but rumination interacts with negative cognitive styles to predict the duration of depressive symptoms. Contrary to original predictions, the use of positive distractions has not consistently been correlated with lower levels of depressive symptoms in correlational studies, although dozens of experimental studies show positive distractions relieve depressed mood. Further, evidence now suggests that rumination is associated with psychopathologies in addition to depression, including anxiety, binge eating, binge drinking, and self-harm. We discuss the relationships between rumination and worry and between rumination and other coping or emotion-regulation strategies. Finally, we highlight recent research on the distinction between rumination and more adaptive forms of self-reflection, on basic cognitive deficits or biases in rumination, on its neural and genetic correlates, and on possible interventions to combat rumination.
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“A core feature of distress disorders is the engagement of maladaptive self-referential processes, including the metacognitive processes of worry and rumination (Nolen-Hoeksema, Wisco, & Lyubomirsky, 2008; Wells, 2005).”
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“Higher levels of DM have been frequently associated with lower levels of rumination28,29 and lower levels of depression and anxiety.30”
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“Furthermore, rumination delays adaptive coping strategies and increases avoidant coping strategies (37, 42).”
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“The literature quotes psychological inflexibility as asusceptibility factor for depression, because it is characterised by apermanent, rigid style of reacting with rumination (Nolen-Hoeksema et al . 2008).”
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“In particular, much of the psychological theorizing about the nature of GAD and MDD in terms of disruption of mind and body has been predicated on a functional relationship between the kinds and intensity of visceral and psychological sensations that one experiences (i.e., motivational intensity) and the ways by which one attempts to respond to their arising (i.e., negative self-referentiality; B”
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“Several studies found that the practice of mindfulness was possibly able to clarify the effects of rumination as a self-critical questioning of one's own emotions and circumstances.22,23”
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“Theorists (e.g., Borkovec et al., 2004; Nolen-Hoeksema, Wisco, & Lyubomirsky, 2008; Watkins, 2008) have argued that NSRP including worry and rumination becomes negatively reinforced by the reduction in aversive emotions.”
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“Repetitive negative thinking (RNT), which includes worry and rumination, is both a risk factor for and a common symptom of anxiety and depression15–17”
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“A capacity to change cognitions and relinquish one’s original interpretation may undermine passive, repetitive elaborative processes central to transdiagnostic psychopathology (e.g., rumination; Nolen-Hoeksema, Wisco, & Lyubomirsky, 2008) and promote flexibility that allows for more effective, rather than habitual, behavioral reactions.”
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“an important strand of research on cognition in depression has identified rumination as a vulnerability factor for depression (Nolen Hoeksema et al., 2008).”
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“RNT is a well-established vulnerability factor for depression symptoms (Nolen-Hoeksema, Wisco, & Lyubomirsky, 2008).”
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“The pain experienced by patients with TS is due to the ironic process of thought inhibition (36), suggesting that avoidant and repressive coping strategies may be adaptive in the short term but do not provide much help in eventual problem-solving (37).”
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“Considering that rumination increases depression and negative thoughts and impairs problem- solving abilities (37), self-blame may have a negative effect on the overall cognitive, emotional, and behavioral aspects of children with TS.”
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“Rumination and worry constitute forms of negative self-absorption (Ingram, 1990; Mor & Winquist, 2002; Nolen-Hoeksema et al., 2008) that prevents the individual from relating in an adaptive manner to current situations and challenges.”
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“The genetic risk of depression is likely due to small effects of hundreds or thousands of common genetic variants, with overrepresentation of genes affecting brain development, inflammation, bioenergetics and neuronal signalling.”
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“The pain experienced by patients with TS is due to the ironic process of thought inhibition (36), suggesting that avoidant and repressive coping strategies may be adaptive in the short term but do not provide much help in eventual problem-solving (37).”
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“It has been shown that both worrying and rumination become negatively reinforced by the reduction in aversive emotions (Borkovec et al., 1998; Nolen-Hoeksema, Wisco, & Lyubomirsky, 2008).”
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“rumination can increase the risk of suicidal thoughts and behaviors,58”
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“NSRPs are common processes in many forms of psychopathology, including GAD and MDD, and includes repetitive or perseverative thought (Watkins, 2008) such as rumination (e.g., repetitive thinking about past mistakes aimed at reducing distress related to perceived losses; Nolen-Hoeksema et al., 2008) and worry (e.g., repetitive thinking about future events aimed at reducing distress that arises from”
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“Rather than effectively engaging adaptive emotion regulation strategies, individuals with distress disorders alternatively utilize perseverative strategies that may be employed to compensate for a negative emotional state, chiefly by enveloping it in elaborative negative self-referential processing (Borkovec et al., 2004; Nolen-Hoeksema et al., 2008; Mennin and Fresco, 2013).”
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“The large number of common variants involved 262-264 entails that every individual carries some risk variants for depression, and a polygenic score (indexing the individual's load of risk variants) predicts the genetic liability to depression better than any specific genetic variant. 265”
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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).”
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“with evidence that this may in part be due to interference with effective problem solving, engagement in instrumental rewarding behaviours or access to social support, which have been proposed as mediators of the negative effects of rumination (Lyubomirsky & Tkach, 2004;Nolen-Hoeksema, Wisco, & Lyubomirsky, 2008;E. R. Watkins, 2008).”
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“Research in non-cardiac populations suggests these factors may be important in explaining the association of rumination with depression (Lyubomirsky & Tkach, 2004;Nolen-Hoeksema et al., 2008;E. R. Watkins, 2008)”
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“For example, rumination is a risk factor for psychological distress and depression (Nolen-Hoeksema et al. 2008)”
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“Ample evidence has suggested that poor regulatory skills constitute a vulnerability and maintenance feature among a wide range of mental disorders (Rottenberg et al., 2005; Mennin and Farach, 2007; Nolen-Hoeksema et al., 2008).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Nolen-Hoeksema, S., Wisco, B. E., & Lyubomirsky, S.
- Affiliations
- Yale University
- Yale University (US)
- University of California, Riverside (US)
- Venue
- Perspectives on Psychological Science
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2008-09
- Volume
- 3
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 400-424
- ISSN
- 1745-6916 (ISSN-L)
- 1745-6924
- OpenAlex
- W4211130665
- Semantic Scholar
- 369b741775686c14974158cb6b18893c95b9ae59
- Cited by
- 5,172
- References
- 209
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 103.94
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- escholarship.org
- Locations
- Perspectives on Psychological Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (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 › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Identity, Memory, and Therapy
- Keywords
- rumination, response styles theory, depression, negative cognitive style, positive distraction, worry, coping strategies, emotion regulation, self-reflection, cognitive biases, anxiety, binge eating, binge drinking, self-harm, social support
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