ArticleJournal of affective disorders2019
Rumination and executive functions: Understanding cognitive vulnerability for psychopathology.
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- The mediating effect of anger rumination, coping and conformity motives on the association between hostility and problematic cannabis use.Addictive behaviors reports · 2022Article
- Within-person Changes in Co-rumination and Rumination in Adolescence: Examining Heterogeneity and the Moderating Roles of Gender and Time.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2022Article
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- Response inhibition deficits are positively associated with trait rumination, but attentional inhibition deficits are not: aggressive behaviors and interpersonal stressors as mediators.Psychological research · 2022Article
- The relationship between physical exercise and mobile phone addiction among Chinese college students: Testing mediation and moderation effects.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- A Longitudinal 5-Year Follow-Up Study of Cognitive Function After First Episode Major Depressive Disorder: Exploring State, Scar and Trait Effects.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Article
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- Examining the moderating role of adverse childhood experiences on the link between executive functioning and depressive/anger rumination among adolescents.Journal of clinical and experimental neuropsychologyArticle
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introductionBoth rumination, a pattern of repetitive, self-focused thought in response to distress, and deficits in executive functions (EFs), a set of cognitive abilities that facilitate higher-order thinking, have transdiagnostic associations with psychopathology. Although empirical studies suggest associations between EFs and rumination, this literature has not examined subtypes of rumination and different components of EFs. It also has not examined whether rumination and EFs explain overlapping variance in psychopathology, which is relevant to theoretical models suggesting that rumination might mediate the EF-psychopathology association.
methodsWe used structural equation modeling to examine the association between latent factors for two types of rumination (anger and depressive) and three components of EF (a Common EF factor, and factors specific to updating working memory and shifting mental sets) and whether they independently relate to internalizing and externalizing psychopathology in a population sample of 764 young adults (mean age 23 years) from the Colorado Longitudinal Twin Study.
resultsDepressive and Anger Rumination showed small correlations with a Common EF factor (rs = -.09 to -.11). Anger Rumination and Common EF ability were associated with independent variance in externalizing psychopathology, whereas Depressive Rumination, but not Common EF, was associated with internalizing psychopathology. LIMITATIONS: Examination of cross-sectional relations in a population sample led to low symptom endorsement for psychopathology and necessitated examination of lifetime, rather than past-year, psychopathology.
conclusionsInconsistent with mediation hypotheses, Common EF abilities and rumination are correlated yet largely independent constructs that both predict psychopathology.
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