Co-rumination buffers the link between social anxiety and depressive symptoms in early adolescence

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 11 - Trang 1-12 - 2017
Nejra Van Zalk1, Maria Tillfors2
1Department of Psychology, Social Work and Counselling, University of Greenwich, London, UK
2Center for Health and Medical Psychology, JPS: Psychology, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden

Tóm tắt

We examined whether co-rumination with online friends buffered the link between social anxiety and depressive symptoms over time in a community sample. In a sample of 526 participants (358 girls; M age  = 14.05) followed at three time points, we conducted a latent cross-lagged model with social anxiety, depressive symptoms, and co-rumination, controlling for friendship stability and friendship quality, and adding a latent interaction between social anxiety and co-rumination predicting depressive symptoms. Social anxiety predicted depressive symptoms, but no direct links between social anxiety and co-rumination emerged. Instead, co-rumination buffered the link between social anxiety and depressive symptoms for adolescents with higher but not lower levels of social anxiety. These findings indicate that co-rumination exerted a positive influence on interpersonal relationships by diminishing the influence from social anxiety on depressive symptoms over time.

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