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Relationship between coping styles and perceptual asymmetry.

Rebecca J Compton1, Lauren R Fisher, Lauren M Koenig

  • 1Department of Psychology, Haverford College, Pennsylvania 19041, USA. rcompton@haverford.edu

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
|May 22, 2003
PubMed
Summary

This study found that ruminative coping, or dwelling on negative emotions, is linked to reduced right hemisphere (RH) activity in women. However, engaging with emotions may increase RH involvement in both genders.

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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology
  • Cognitive Science

Background:

  • Prior research suggests reduced posterior right hemisphere (RH) activity is linked to depression.
  • Ruminative coping is a known correlate of depression.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between coping styles and hemispheric asymmetry.
  • To explore the link between ruminative coping and depression, considering RH activity.

Main Methods:

  • Two samples of undergraduates (N=170) completed the Responses Styles Questionnaire and a behavioral choice task.
  • Participants also completed chimeric faces tasks to assess emotional processing and RH bias.

Main Results:

  • In women, self-reported rumination correlated with decreased RH bias on an emotion-based chimeric task.

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  • In both genders, choosing to engage in an emotional task was associated with increased RH involvement.

    • Conclusions:

    • Brooding and dwelling on negative emotions may be associated with decreased RH involvement.
    • Openness to emotion, conversely, may be linked to increased RH involvement, suggesting a complex interplay between coping and brain lateralization.