The perseverative cognition hypothesis: a review of worry, prolonged stress-related physiological activation, and health.

By J. Brosschot, W. Gerin, Julian F. Thayer. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 2006

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Behavioral Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Self-Distancing: Theory, Research, and Current Directions (2017, background): “Unfortunately, ruminating over negative experiences leads to exactly this pattern—blood pressure levels go up when people recall highly arousing negative past experiences and remain elevated as people continue to think about those events (e.g., Brosschot et al., 2006; Gerin et al., 2006).”
“Take a break?!” Off-job recovery, job demands, and job resources as predictors of health, active learning, and creativity (2012, background): “Negative work reflections are assumed to be resource-consuming experiences (Fritz & Sonnentag, 2006), and might lead to negative sustained activation in the human brain (Brosschot et al., 2006).”
Need for recovery after emotional labor: Differential effects of daily deep and surface acting (2018, background): “Brosschot, Gerin, and Thayer (2006) theorized that the unfavorable consequences of stress are explained by the cognitive perseverance of the stressor that prolongs the harmful impact of the exposure to stress.”
Workplace conflict and employee well‐being: The moderating role of detachment from work during off‐job time (2013, background): “Such reflections may develop into perseverative thoughts (Brosschot et al., 2006) that prolong the strain response and may impair the employee’s physiological functioning (Brosschot et al., 2007).”
The Moderating Effects of Psychological Detachment and Thoughts of Revenge in Workplace Bullying (2008, positive): “In this sense, Brosschot et al. (2006) have suggested that representational cognitions that may occur after the stressor is more important than the stressor itself. This study has a number of strengths and limitations that deserve mention. First, one of the strengths is that the study is based on a ”
Emerging into adulthood in the face of racial discrimination: Physiological, psychological, and sociopolitical consequences for african american youth. (2015, background): “Indeed, the physical manifestation of stress on the physiological systems can linger in anticipation of future discrimination and as a result of rumination over past discrimination (Brosschot et al., 2006; Hoggard et al., 2015; Williams & Mohammed, 2009).”
Constructive and Unconstructive Repetitive Thought (2008, background): “…responses to such life events and daily stressors such that the body’s systems associated with stress (e.g., cardiovascular, hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal, and immune systems) become chronically activated, leading to the development of disease (Brosschot et al., 2006; A. R. Schwartz et al., 2003).”
When Worries Make you Sick: A Review of Perseverative Cognition, the Default Stress Response and Somatic Health (2010, background): “increased autonomic nervous activity and release of (nor)epinephrine and cortisol) and behavioural changes (avoidance or approach behaviour), known in psychophysiology as the sympatho-excitatory response or fight-or-flight response (Brosschot et al., 2006).”
Ruminative coping as avoidance (2007, background): “A recent review of the literature linking worry with poor health outcomes can be found in Brosschot et al. [ 21 ].”