ArticleFrontiers in psychology2025
The impact of adolescent clinical depression and depressive symptoms on moral thinking: based on process dissociation approach.
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Background: Adolescence is a critical period for moral development, and depression significantly impacts this process by altering cognitive and emotional processing, affecting the resolution of moral dilemmas. Rumination, closely linked to depression, also influences emotional and cognitive processing during moral judgments. Methods: Study 1 examined 34 depressed adolescents and 36 healthy controls who completed the Beck Depression Inventory-Short Form and Beck Anxiety Inventory, followed by 20 moral dilemmas from the Process Dissociation (PD) procedure. Study 2 ( Results: Clinically depressed adolescents showed significantly reduced reliance on both utilitarian [ Conclusion: Clinical depression decreases deontological and utilitarian moral reasoning, while negative rumination exacerbated depressive symptoms, which sequentially increased paranoid ideation and hostility, ultimately lowering deontological judgments. These findings highlight depression's nuanced impact on adolescent moral development and underscore transdiagnostic mechanisms requiring targeted intervention.
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