Anger and depression: evidence of a possible mediating role for rumination.
Tendency to ruminate may mediate the relationship between anger and depression. In this preliminary study, 353 Italian community participants completed the State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory-2, the Padua Inventory's Tendency to Doubt and to Ruminate subscale, and the Beck Depression Inventory-II. Trait anger and depression were expected to have a positive relationship, and separate relationships with the tendency to ruminate. Theoretically, a new hypothesis was that the tendency to ruminate would mediate the relationship between depression and anger. Zero-order and partial correlations and a path analysis based on Baron and Kenny's method for calculating multiple regression analyses were calculated. Consistent with the hypotheses, anger and depression were strongly associated; the tendency to ruminate was significantly associated with both anger and depression; and the mediation model fit the data. Behaviors related to the tendency to ruminate could help to explain how depression is related to anger.
Balsamo
Michela
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Department of Biomedical Sciences, "G. d'Annunzio" University, Postgraduate School of Cognitive Psychotherapy, via dei Vestini 31, 66013 Chieti, Italy. michela.balsamo@libero.it
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000786:Anger; D001288:Attention; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011594:Psychometrics; D055815:Young Adult