Brooding and pondering: Isolating the active ingredients of depressive rumination with exploratory factor analysis and structural equation modeling

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Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 315-327

  Armey, Michael F ^a   Fresco, David M ^a   Moore, Michael T ^a   Mennin, Douglas S ^b   Turk, Cynthia L ^c   Heimberg, Richard G ^d   Kecmanovic, Jelena ^e   Alloy, Lauren B ^d  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WASHBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e ARGOSY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brooding; Depressive rumination; Factor analysis; Pondering; Response styles

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; QUESTIONNAIRE;

AFFECT; ANXIETY; DEPRESSION; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70449707429     PISSN: 10731911     EISSN: 15523489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1073191109340388     Document Type: Article

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