Emotional inertia contributes to depressive symptoms beyond perseverative thinking

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 527-538

  Brose, Annette ^a,b   Schmiedek, Florian ^b,c   Koval, Peter ^a   Kuppens, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^c GERMAN INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Daily diary; Depressive symptoms; Emotional inertia; Perseverative thoughts; Rumination

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; CENTER FOR EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES DEPRESSION SCALE; COGNITION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL INERTIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PERSEVERATION; POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE AFFECT SCHEDULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THINKING; PSYCHOLOGY; TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; THINKING; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84922218355     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2014.916252     Document Type: Article

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