An Exploration into Depression-Focused and Anger-Focused Rumination in Relation to Depression in a Student Population

By Paul Gilbert, M. Cheung, C. Irons, Kirsten McEwan. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 2005

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Research has shown an important link between depression and rumination. This study set out to explore depression-focused rumination and anger-focused rumination in relation to shame and entrapment, and depression. 166 undergraduate students completed a battery of self-report questionnaires measuring current depression, rumination on depressive symptoms, rumination on anger, and the frequency of shame-focused and entrapment-focused thoughts. Both depression-focused and anger-focused rumination were related to depression, and to the frequency of shame and entrapment thoughts. In a mediational model, the link between depression-focused rumination and depression was partially mediated by feeling trapped by, and wanting to escape from, one's thoughts and feelings. Thus the link between rumination and depression is complex. Although rumination may contribute to depression by generating a spiral of negative thinking and negative feeling, feeling trapped and unable to control one's rumination, and being flight motivated, may add a further dimension to the depressogenic qualities of rumination.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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In Clinical Psychology

1. Paul Gilbert
2. C. Irons
3. K. Neff
4. Kirsten McEwan
5. Nicola Petrocchi
6. A. Xavier
7. M. Cunha
8. Miles Richardson

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. Paul Gilbert
2. C. Irons
3. K. Neff
4. Kirsten McEwan

Citations in the corpus

• Ruminating on Rumination: are Rumination on Anger and Sadness Differentially Related to Aggression and Depressed Mood? (2010, unknown): “One study on adults (Gilbert et al. 2005) examined anger rumination and sadness rumination together, although focused only on depression as an outcome variable.”
• Adolescent Emotional Development and the Emergence of Depressive Disorders: Shame, self-criticism, and self-compassion in adolescence (2008, background): “Gilbert et al. (2005) found that the frequency of shame thoughts was related to depression and anger rumination.”