Rumination and inhibitory difficulties: exploring the role of state rumination with emotionally self-relevant words
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Tamara Foxworth (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
- Advisor
- Kari Eddington
Abstract: The aim of this project was to examine the roles of working memory capacity, depressive symptoms, and rumination (state and trait) in inhibitory difficulties with self-relevant emotional words following a rumination/distraction manipulation using the negative affective priming cognitive task. It was hypothesized that brooding would predict inhibitory difficulties with negative rather than positive self-relevant words in a non-clinical undergraduate sample (N = 148). Additionally, it was proposed that state rumination would play a mediating role in the relationship between brooding and inhibitory difficulties with emotional words, a relationship that would be further moderated by working memory capacity. Though brooding marginally predicted negative bias scores using multiple regression, this valence-specific finding was not confirmed with multi-level statistical analysis. Results failed to support the proposed moderated meditational model, a finding that may be impacted by restricted range of dysphoric affect in the sample. However, results from linear regression indicated that brooding predicted state rumination regardless of condition.
Rumination and inhibitory difficulties: exploring the role of state rumination with emotionally self-relevant words
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Dissertation
- Language: English
- Date: 2014
- Keywords
- Brooding, Inhibition, Negative affective priming, Rumination, Working memory
- Subjects
- Depression, Mental
- Emotions and cognition
- Short-term memory
- Inhibition
- Psycholinguistics