Facilitating adaptive emotional analysis: Distinguishing distanced-analysis of depressive experiences from immersed-analysis and distraction

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 924-938

  Kross, Ethan ^a,c   Ayduk, Ozlem ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Autobiographical memory; Depression; Emotion regulation; Emotional processing; Psychological distance; Rumination

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LIFE EVENT; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECALL; THINKING;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REPRESSION; SELF PSYCHOLOGY; THINKING;

EID: 44849138234     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167208315938     Document Type: Article

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