Response Styles to Positive Affect and Depression: Concurrent and Prospective Associations in a Community Sample

Cognitive Therapy and Research

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 480-491

  Nelis, Sabine ^a   Holmes, Emily A ^b,c   Raes, Filip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Affect regulation; Dampening; Depression; Positive affect; Prediction; Rumination

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; ANHEDONIA; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITION ASSESSMENT; COMMUNITY SAMPLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAMPENING; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSITIVE AFFECT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RUMINATION; SELF REPORT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 84937633498     PISSN: 01475916     EISSN: 15732819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10608-015-9671-y     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. Aldao, A., Nolen-Hoeksema, S., & Schweizer, S. (2010). Emotion-regulation strategies across psychopathology: A meta-analytic review. Clinical Psychology Review,30, 217–237. doi:10.1016/j.cpr.2009.11.004
2. American Psychiatric Association. (1994). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (4th ed.). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association.
3. American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association.
4. Bijttebier, P., Raes, F., Vasey, M. W., & Feldman, G. C. (2012). Responses to positive affect predict mood symptoms in children under conditions of stress: A prospective study. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology,40, 381–389. doi:10.1007/s10802-011-9579-2
5. Bryant, F. B. (2003). Savoring Beliefs Inventory (SBI): A scale for measuring beliefs about savouring. Journal of Mental Health,12, 175–196. doi:10.1080/0963823031000103489
6. Burcusa, S. L., & Iacono, W. C. (2007). Risk for recurrence in depression. Clinical Psychology Review,27, 959–985. doi:10.1016/j.cpr.2007.02.005
7. Carl, J. R., Soskin, D. P., Kerns, C., & Barlow, D. H. (2013). Positive emotion regulation in emotional disorders: A theoretical review. Clinical Psychology Review,33, 343–360. doi:10.1016/j.cpr.2013.01.003
8. Clark, L. A., & Watson, D. (1991). Tripartite model of anxiety and depression: Psychometric evidence and taxonomic implications. Journal of Abnormal Psychology,100, 316–336. doi:10.1037//0021-843X.100.3.316
9. de Beurs, E., van Dyck, R., Marquenie, L. A., Lange, A., & Blonk, R. (2001). De DASS: Een vragenlijst voor het meten van depressie, angst en stress [The DASS: A questionnaire for the measurement of depression, anxiety and stress]. Gedragstherapie,34, 35–53.
10. Dunn, B. D. (2012). Helping depressed clients reconnect to positive emotion experience: Current insights and future directions. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy,19, 326–340. doi:10.1002/cpp.1799
11. Eberhard-Gran, M., Eskild, A., Tambs, K., Samuelsen, S. O., & Opjordsmoen, S. (2002). Depression in postpartum and non-postpartum women: Prevalence and risk factors. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica,106, 426–433. doi:10.1034/j.1600-0447.2002.02408.x
12. Edge, M. D., Miller, C. J., Muhtadie, L., Johnson, S. L., Carver, C. S., Marquinez, N., & Gotlib, I. H. (2013). People with bipolar I disorder report avoiding rewarding activities and dampening positive emotion. Journal of Affective Disorders,146, 407–413. doi:10.1016/j.jad.2012.07.027
13. Eisner, L. R., Johnson, S. L., & Carver, C. S. (2009). Positive affect regulation in anxiety disorders. Journal of Anxiety Disorders,23, 645–649. doi:10.1016/j.janxdis.2009.02.001
14. Feldman, G. C., Joormann, J., & Johnson, S. L. (2008). Responses to positive affect: A self-report measure of rumination and dampening. Cognitive Therapy and Research,32, 507–525. doi:10.1007/s10608-006-9083-0
15. First, M. B., Spitzer, R. L., Gibbon, M., & Williams, J. B. W. (1996). Structured clinical interview for DSM-IV axis I disorders. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association.
16. Franken, I. H. A., Rassin, E., & Muris, P. (2007). The assessment of anhedonia in clinical and non-clinical populations: Further validation of the Snaith–Hamilton Pleasure Scale (SHAPS). Journal of Affective Disorders,99, 83–89. doi:10.1016/j.jad.2006.08.020
17. Gard, D. E., Germans Gard, M., Kring, A. M., & John, O. P. (2006). Anticipatory and consummatory components of the experience of pleasure: A scale development study. Journal of Research in Personality,40, 1086–1102. doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2005.11.001
18. Gentzler, A. L., Morey, J. N., Palmer, C. A., & Yi, C. Y. (2012). Young adolescents’ responses to positive events: Associations with positive affect and adjustment. The Journal of Early Adolescence,33, 663–683. doi:10.1177/0272431612462629
19. Gilbert, K. E. (2012). The neglected role of positive emotion in adolescent psychopathology. Clinical Psychology Review,32, 467–481. doi:10.1016/j.cpr.2012.05.005
20. Gilbert, K. E., Nolen-Hoeksema, S., & Gruber, J. (2013). Positive emotion dysregulation across mood disorders: How amplifying versus dampening predicts emotional reactivity and illness course. Behaviour Research and Therapy,51, 736–741. doi:10.1016/j.brat.2013.08.004
21. Gruber, J., Eidelman, P., Johnson, S. L., Smith, B., & Harvey, A. G. (2011). Hooked on a feeling: Rumination about positive and negative emotion in inter-episode bipolar disorder. Journal of Abnormal Psychology,120, 956–961. doi:10.1037/a0023667
22. Hechtman, L. A., Raila, H., Chiao, J., & Gruber, J. (2013). Positive emotion regulation and psychopathology: A transdiagnostic cultural neuroscience approach. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology,4, 1–27. doi:10.5127/jep.030412
23. Holmes, E. A., Lang, T. J., & Shah, D. M. (2009). Developing interpretation bias modification as a “cognitive vaccine” for depressed mood: Imagining positive events makes you feel better than thinking about them verbally. Journal of Abnormal Psychology,118, 76–88. doi:10.1037/a0012590
24. Johnson, S. L., McKenzie, G., & McMurrich, S. (2008). Ruminative responses to negative and positive affect among students diagnosed with bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder. Cognitive Therapy and Research,32, 702–713. doi:10.1007/s10608-007-9158-6
25. Karsten, J., Hartman, C. A., Smit, J. H., Zitman, F. G., Beekman, A. T. F., Cuijpers, P., et al. (2011). Psychiatric history and subthreshold symptoms as predictors of the occurrence of depressive or anxiety disorder within 2 years. The British Journal of Psychiatry,198, 206–212. doi:10.1192/bjp.bp.110.080572
26. Lovibond, S. H., & Lovibond, P. F. (1995). Manual for the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (2nd ed.). Sydney: Psychology Foundation.
27. Nelis, S., Debeer, E., Holmes, E. A., & Raes, F. (2013). Dysphoric students show higher use of the observer perspective in their retrieval of positive versus negative autobiographical memories. Memory,21, 423–430. doi:10.1080/09658211.2012.730530
28. Nieuwenhuijsen, K., de Boer, A. G. E. M., Verbeek, J. H. A. M., Blonk, R. W. B., & van Dijk, F. J. H. (2003). The Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS): Detecting anxiety disorder and depression in employees absent from work because of mental health problems. Occupational and Environmental Medicine,60, 77–82. doi:10.1136/oem.60.suppl_1.i77
29. Nolen-Hoeksema, S. (1991). Responses to depression and their effects on the duration of depressive episodes. Journal of Abnormal Psychology,100, 569–582. doi:10.1037/0021-843X.100.4.569
30. Nolen-Hoeksema, S., Wisco, B. E., & Lyubomirsky, S. (2008). Rethinking rumination. Perspectives on Psychological Science,3, 400–424. doi:10.1111/j.1745-6924.2008.00088.x
31. Raes, F., Daems, K., Feldman, G. C., Johnson, S. L., & Van Gucht, D. (2009). A psychometric evaluation of the Dutch version of the responses to positive affect questionnaire. Psychologica Belgica,49, 293–310. doi:10.5334/pb-49-4-293
32. Raes, F., Smets, J., Nelis, S., & Schoofs, H. (2012). Dampening of positive affect prospectively predicts depressive symptoms in non-clinical samples. Cognition and Emotion,26, 75–82. doi:10.1080/02699931.2011.555474
33. Raes, F., Smets, J., Wessel, I., Van Den Eede, F., Nelis, S., Franck, E., et al. (2014). Turning the pink cloud grey: Dampening of positive affect predicts postpartum depressive symptoms. Journal of Psychosomatic Research,77, 64–69. doi:10.1016/j.jpsychores.2014.04.003
34. Snaith, R. P., Hamilton, M., Morley, S., Humayan, A., Hargreaves, D., & Trigwell, P. (1995). A scale for the assessment of hedonic tone the Snaith–Hamilton Pleasure Scale. The British Journal of Psychiatry,167, 99–103. doi:10.1192/bjp.167.1.99
35. Thomsen, K. D. (2006). The association between rumination and negative affect: A review. Cognition and Emotion,20, 1216–1235. doi:10.1080/02699930500473533
36. Van der Does, A. J. W., Barnhofer, T., & Williams, J. M. G. (2003). The Major Depression Questionnaire (MDQ). Retrieved from http://www.dousa.nl/publications.htm
37. Vines, L., & Nixon, R. D. V. (2009). Positive attributional style, life events and their effect on children’s mood: Prospective study. Australian Journal of Psychology,61, 211–219. doi:10.1080/00049530802579507
38. Wardenaar, K. J., Veen, T. V., Giltay, E. J., Beurs, E. D., Penninx, B. W. J. H., & Zitman, F. G. (2010). Development and validation of a 30-item short adaptation of the Mood and Anxiety Symptoms Questionnaire (MASQ). Psychiatry Research,179, 101–106. doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2009.03.005
39. Watson, D., Clark, L. A., Weber, K., Assenheimer, J. S., Strauss, M. E., & McCormick, R. A. (1995a). Testing a tripartite model: II. Exploring the symptom structure of anxiety and depression in student, adult, and patient samples. Journal of Abnormal Psychology,104, 15–25. doi:10.1037/0021-843X.104.1.15
40. Watson, D., Weber, K., Assenheimer, J. S., Clark, L. A., Strauss, M. E., & McCormick, R. A. (1995b). Testing a tripartite model: I. Evaluating the convergent and discriminant validity of anxiety and depression symptom scales. Journal of Abnormal Psychology,104, 3–14. doi:10.1037/0021-843X.104.1.3
41. Werner-Seidler, A., Banks, R., Dunn, B. D., & Moulds, M. L. (2013). An investigation of the relationship between positive affect regulation and depression. Behaviour Research and Therapy,51, 46–56. doi:10.1016/j.brat.2012.11.001
42. Wichers, M., Peeters, F., Geschwind, N., Jacobs, N., Simons, C. J. P., Derom, C., et al. (2010). Unveiling patterns of affective responses in daily life may improve outcome prediction in depression: A momentary assessment study. Journal of Affective Disorders,124, 191–195. doi:10.1016/j.jad.2009.11.010
43. Williams, J. M. G., Van der Does, A. J. W., Barnhofer, T., Crane, C., & Segal, Z. S. (2008). Cognitive reactivity, suicidal ideation and future fluency: Preliminary investigation of a differential activation theory of hopelessness/suicidality. Cognitive Therapy and Research,32, 83–104. doi:10.1007/s10608-006-9105-y