Maladaptive regulation of positive emotion has increasingly been associated with psychopathology. Little is known, however, about how individual strategies used to manage positive emotion predict concurrent emotional responding and prospective illness course across mood disorders. The present study examined the concurrent and prospective influence of amplification and dampening regulation strat...

Current research into mind-wandering is beginning to acknowledge that this process is one of heterogeneity. Following on from previous findings highlighting the role of self-focus during mind wandering, the present study aimed to examine individual differences in rumination and self-reflection and the impact such styles of self-focus may have on mind-wandering experiences. Thirty-three particip...

This study examined the relationships between posttraumatic growth (PTG) and depreciation (PTD) across 10 countries assessed factorial invariance of standardized inventory assessing PTG PTD, PTGDI-X, expansion PTGI-X (Tedeschi et al., 2017). We also investigated roles social cognitive factors in PTD. Data were collected from participants who identified that their most stressful life experience ...

The authors sought to examine whether rumination about psychologically painful, though nontraumatic, interpersonal transgressions is associated with increased salivary cortisol. They measured salivary cortisol, rumination about a transgression, fear and anger regarding the transgressor, perceived painfulness of the transgression, and positive and negative mood in 115 undergraduates who had expe...

INTRODUCTION Personality disorders (PDs) have been associated with a poor prognosis of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). The aim of the current study was to examine cognitive vulnerability (i.e., dysfunctional beliefs, extremity of beliefs, cognitive reactivity, and rumination) that might contribute to this poor prognosis of patients with PD comorbidity. METHODS 309 outpatients with remitted r...

objective: this study aimed to examine the effectiveness of metacognitive therapy on decreasing depression in women with breast cancer. a single-case design was employed in this research.  methods: an ab form of single-subject experimental design was used in this study with 3 baselines (every 10 days) before intervention stage and two measurements during intervention stage and one follow-up (af...