Processing mode influences the relationship between trait rumination and emotional vulnerability.

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Watkins (2004) found that the mode of processing adopted during expressive writing following a failure influenced emotional recovery from the failure as a function of level of trait rumination. At higher levels of trait rumination, negative mood 12 hours after the failure was greater, but only in an abstract, evaluative writing condition and not in a concrete, process-focused condition. The current study examined whether this interaction of trait rumination with processing mode would generalize to emotional vulnerability to a subsequent negative stressor. Participants repeatedly focused on both positive and negative scenarios in either a concrete, process-focused or an abstract, evaluative mode, before a failure experience. As predicted, after the failure experience, higher levels of trait rumination were associated with lower levels of positive affect, but only for participants in the abstract, evaluative condition and not for participants in the concrete, process-focused condition. This finding is consistent with processing mode influencing the relationship between trait rumination and emotional vulnerability.

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Author/s: Moberly, Nicholas J (NJ); Watkins, Edward R (ER);

Affiliation: University of Exeter, United Kingdom.

Grants: (Agency:Wellcome Trust)

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Publication Type: Comparative Study; Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Journal: Behavior therapy (Behav Ther), published in England. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2006-Sep; vol 37 (issue 3) : pp 281-91

Dates: Created 2006/08/31; Completed 2006/11/07; Revised 2007/08/13;

PMID: 16942979, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 12/26/2008)

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