The Role of Emotion Regulation in Attentional Biases in Mood-Congruent Information and Sustained Negative Affect in Depression By

iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS iv TABLE OF CONTENTS v INTRODUCTION 1 METHOD 9 Participants Measures Stimuli Procedure RESULTS 15 Mood Induction Mood Reactivity & Recovery Attentional Bias Bias for sad stimuli Bias for happy stimuli Mood reactivity as a moderator Bias for sad faces Bias for happy faces Emotion Regulation Emotion regulation as a mediator Emotion regulation processes and mood reactivity and recovery Emotion regulation processes and BDI-II scores DISCUSSION 22 REFERENCES 27 TABLES Table 1: Sample Characteristics 35 Table 2: Mood Induction Results, by measure 36 Table 3: VAS and PANAS Means 36 Table 4: Mood Reactivity and Recovery Scores, by depression history 36 Table 5: Attentional Bias Scores (Sad, Happy), by depression history 36 Table 6: Emotion Regulation Means, by depression history 37 Table 7: Prediction of Mood Recovery, by emotion regulation process 37