A two-year longitudinal study of gender differences in responses to positive affect and depressive symptoms during middle adolescence.
J Adolesc
; 56: 11-23, 2017 Apr.
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| ID: mdl-28130973
ABSTRACT
This study aimed to analyze the prospective associations during adolescence between depressive symptoms and response styles to positive affect and to examine gender differences. A longitudinal study was conducted with three waves separated by 1 year each to assess a non-clinical sample of 622 Spanish adolescents who were 13 and 14 years old (50.2% boys, 49.8% girls). The participants completed self-report measures of depressive symptoms and responses to positive affect (emotion-focused positive rumination, self-focused positive rumination and dampening of positive emotion). The results showed that the increase in depressive symptoms was associated with an increase in dampening and decreases in emotion-focused and self-focused positive rumination. Furthermore, girls presented more depressive symptoms, as well as higher dampening and lower self-focused positive rumination, than boys. The conclusions highlight the need to consider responses to positive affect in explaining gender differences in depressive symptoms during mid-adolescence, as well as in designing prevention programs.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Sex Factors
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Affect
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Depression
Type of study:
Diagnostic_studies
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Observational_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limits:
Adolescent
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Country/Region as subject:
Europa
Language:
En
Journal:
J Adolesc
Year:
2017
Type:
Article