Why are depressive individuals indecisive? Different modes of rumination account for indecision in non-clinical depression

Di Schiena, Raffaella; Luminet, Olivier; Chang, Betty; Philippot, Pierre

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Why are depressive individuals indecisive? Different modes of rumination account for indecision in non-clinical depression

Di Schiena, Raffaella; Luminet, Olivier; Chang, Betty et al.

2013 • In Cognitive Therapy and Research, 37 (4), p. 713 - 724

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Depression; Indecision; Modes of rumination; Rumination; Experimental and Cognitive Psychology; Clinical Psychology

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[en] Individuals with depressive symptoms tend to adopt an abstract-analytical (A-A) rather than a concrete-experiential (C-E) mode of rumination. A large body of evidence shows that this leads to many deficits that are associated with depression (Watkins in Psychol Bull 134:163-206, 2008). In two studies, the present research examined whether indecision in a non-clinical population could also result from the mode of rumination adopted. In the first study, 174 participants completed measures of depressive symptoms, rumination, decision-making styles and indecision. The results of this study showed that indecision and one dysfunctional decision-making style (hyper-vigilance) significantly correlated with A-A rumination, even when controlling for depression. In a second study, 71 participants with mild to severe depressive symptoms (MSDs) and 49 participants with no to minimal depressive symptoms were trained to adopt either an A-A or a C-E rumination mode, and subsequently requested to make 10 choices. Consistent with the results of the first study, the results of the second study showed that participants in the A-A condition took longer to make their choice compared to participants in the C-E condition, irrespective of their level of depression. Moreover, the group of participants with MSDs experienced slightly more difficulty in decision making when they were in the A-A mode than in the C-E mode. This suggests that the A-A rumination mode could be an antecedent of indecision, whereas the C-E mode predicts its reduction. These interpretations are in line with the idea that A-A rumination is maladaptive and C-E rumination is adaptive. © 2013 Springer Science+Business Media New York.

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Di Schiena, Raffaella ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de Psychologie > Psychologie clinique de l'enfant ; Faculty of Psychology, Université Catholique de Louvain, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Luminet, Olivier; Faculty of Psychology, Université Catholique de Louvain, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium ; National Fund for Scientific Research (FRS-FNRS), Brussels, Belgium

Chang, Betty; Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Philippot, Pierre; Faculty of Psychology, Université Catholique de Louvain, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

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English

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Why are depressive individuals indecisive? Different modes of rumination account for indecision in non-clinical depression

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August 2013

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Cognitive Therapy and Research

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0147-5916

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1573-2819

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Springer Science and Business Media LLC

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713 - 724

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Acknowledgments This research has been facilitated by Grants from the ‘‘Action de Recherche Concertée’’ ARC06/11, Université catholique de Louvain/Communautté franc¸aise de Belgique.

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