Rumination and Age: Some Things Get Better
Rumination has been defined as a mode of responding to distress that involves passively focusing one's attention on symptoms of distress without taking action. This dysfunctional response style intensifies depressed mood, impairs interpersonal problem solving, and leads to more pessimistic futu...
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| author | Stefan Sütterlin Muirne C. S. Paap Stana Babic Andrea Kübler Claus Vögele |
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| description | Rumination has been defined as a mode of responding to distress that involves passively focusing one's attention on symptoms of distress without taking action. This dysfunctional response style intensifies depressed mood, impairs interpersonal problem solving, and leads to more pessimistic future perspectives and less social support. As most of these results were obtained from younger people, it remains unclear how age affects ruminative thinking. Three hundred members of the general public ranging in age from 15 to 87 years were asked about their ruminative styles using the Response Styles Questionnaire (RSQ), depression and satisfaction with life. A Mokken Scale analysis confirmed the two-factor structure of the RSQ with brooding and reflective pondering as subcomponents of rumination. Older participants (63 years and older) reported less ruminative thinking than other age groups. Life satisfaction was associated with brooding and highest for the earlier and latest life stages investigated in this study. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-6996b58a907d4db1ae439b8c022ff2f72025-02-03T01:12:13ZengWileyJournal of Aging Research2090-22042090-22122012-01-01201210.1155/2012/267327267327Rumination and Age: Some Things Get BetterStefan Sütterlin0Muirne C. S. Paap1Stana Babic2Andrea Kübler3Claus Vögele4Research Unit INSIDE, University of Luxembourg, Campus Walferdange, Route de Diekirch, 7220 Walferdange, LuxembourgDepartment of Research Methodology, Measurement and Data Analysis, Faculty of Behavioral Sciences, University of Twente, Drienerlolaan 5, 7522 NB Enschede, The NetherlandsDepartment of Psychology I, University of Würzburg, Marcusstraße 9-11, 97070 Würzburg, GermanyDepartment of Psychology I, University of Würzburg, Marcusstraße 9-11, 97070 Würzburg, GermanyResearch Unit INSIDE, University of Luxembourg, Campus Walferdange, Route de Diekirch, 7220 Walferdange, LuxembourgRumination has been defined as a mode of responding to distress that involves passively focusing one's attention on symptoms of distress without taking action. This dysfunctional response style intensifies depressed mood, impairs interpersonal problem solving, and leads to more pessimistic future perspectives and less social support. As most of these results were obtained from younger people, it remains unclear how age affects ruminative thinking. Three hundred members of the general public ranging in age from 15 to 87 years were asked about their ruminative styles using the Response Styles Questionnaire (RSQ), depression and satisfaction with life. A Mokken Scale analysis confirmed the two-factor structure of the RSQ with brooding and reflective pondering as subcomponents of rumination. Older participants (63 years and older) reported less ruminative thinking than other age groups. Life satisfaction was associated with brooding and highest for the earlier and latest life stages investigated in this study.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/267327 |
| spellingShingle | Stefan Sütterlin Muirne C. S. Paap Stana Babic Andrea Kübler Claus Vögele Rumination and Age: Some Things Get Better Journal of Aging Research |
| title | Rumination and Age: Some Things Get Better |
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