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Negative affectivity, depression, and anxiety: Does rumination mediate the links?

Naved Iqbal¹, Kaiser Ahmad Dar¹

¹Department of Psychology, Jamia Millia Islamia (A Central University), New Delhi 110025, India.

Journal of Affective Disorders

|April 28, 2015

Summary

Negative affectivity (NA) predicts depressive symptoms through brooding and reflection, but not anxiety symptoms. This suggests NA may be more linked to depression than anxiety.

Keywords:

Anxiety Brooding Depression Negative affectivity Reflection Rumination

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Background:

Negative affectivity (NA) is a known vulnerability factor for depression and anxiety.
Rumination, a negative thought process, is implicated in the link between NA and these symptoms.
Rumination has two subtypes: brooding and reflection.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the mediating roles of brooding and reflection.
To clarify the relationship between NA, rumination subtypes, and symptoms of depression and anxiety.

Main Methods:

Administered self-report questionnaires to 77 psychiatric patients (aged 30-40).
Assessed rumination (brooding, reflection), NA, depression, and anxiety symptoms.

Main Results:

NA, brooding, reflection, anxiety, and depressive symptoms were significantly correlated.
Brooding and reflection fully mediated the association between NA and depressive symptoms.
Neither brooding nor reflection mediated the relationship between NA and anxiety symptoms.

Conclusions:

NA predicts brooding and reflection, which in turn predict depressive symptoms.
The findings suggest NA may be more associated with depression than anxiety.
Study limitations include cross-sectional design, sample size, and assessment methods.