Journal of Depression and Anxiety
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Amy Mezulis

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• Research Article
  Affective Reactivity Predicts Cognitive Reactivity to Induced Stress in Adolescence
  Author(s): Sarah Ingrid Crysta, Jordan Simonson, Amy Mezulis and Kara PegramSarah Ingrid Crysta, Jordan Simonson, Amy Mezulis and Kara Pegram
  
  The cognitive vulnerability-stress model of depression suggests that maladaptive cognitive responses to stress place individuals at risk for developing depression. Less is understood about the process by which these maladaptive responses are generated. One hypothesis is that affective reactivity elicits depressogenic cognitive responses in the context of stress exposure. We hypothesized that the immediate experience of negative affect following induced stress (state-NA) would precede and influence subsequent depressogenic cognitive responses. We also predicted that trait cognitive style would moderate the relationship between state affective and cognitive reactivity. In two college samples (N1 = 84, M1 = 20.23 years; N2 = 67, M2 = 20.02 years) we found that state-NA predicted cognitive reactivity. This relationship was moderated by pre-existing cognitive style for some, but not all, d.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2167-1044.1000120

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