Title |
Co-rumination buffers the link between social anxiety and depressive symptoms in early adolescence
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Published in |
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, August 2017
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DOI | 10.1186/s13034-017-0179-y |
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Authors |
Nejra Van Zalk, Maria Tillfors |
Abstract |
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; Mage = 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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