background and purpose: humans have a capacity to become aware of thoughts and behaviors known as metacognition. the metacognitive model of anxiety disorders emphasizes that metacognitive beliefs are key factors in obsessive-compulsive disorder and depression pathology. the purpose of this research was to compare metacognitive beliefs in patients with obsessive compulsive disorder (ocd) and dep...

background: thus study aimed to test the hypothesis that positiveemotion can quell or undo the lingering worry and ruminationfollowing induced negative emotion.methods: 32 female students in grade 1 of high school wererandomly recruited and assigned in two experimental and controlgroups. they completed questionnaires in a pretest that are listedherewith: (1) rumination questionnaire; (2) two sc...

People with borderline personality disorder (BPD) frequently engage in behaviors that may result in negative consequences. These behaviors can include binge eating, using substances, fighting, yelling, self-injuring, verbal aggression, or impulsive shopping. These behaviors frequently occur in the context of negative emotion, and they may serve to reduce it. The emotional cascade model (Selby &...

High trait positive affect (PA) protects against depressive symptoms through cognitive responses such as rumination. However, how rumination in response to positive emotions (positive rumination) protects against depressive symptoms while rumination in response to negative emotions (brooding) predicts depressive symptoms is poorly understood. We hypothesized that (a) positive rumination and bro...

Self-criticism is a form of negative self-evaluation that has strong associations with many forms of psychopathology. Rumination is a maladaptive form of repetitive thinking that is associated with many psychological disorders. Although measures of several different types of rumination (e.g., general rumination, depressive rumination, anger rumination) have been developed, none focuses specific...

according to the response styles theory (Nolen-hoeksema, 1991), rumination contributes to both the development and maintenance of depressive symptoms. in this study, we examined the vulnerability and maintenance hypotheses in a multi-wave prospective study of young adults with levels of negative events and depressive symptoms assessed every week for 7 weeks. We found no support for the vulnerab...

OBJECTIVE To examine the effects of self-reported attentional bias on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms and posttraumatic growth (PTG) through the potential mediator of cancer-related rumination. DESIGN A cross-sectional survey design was used and women with breast cancer (N=170) were recruited. MEASURES Attentional biases, cancer-related ruminations, PTSD symptoms, and PTG were...