title: Brief report: adolescents' co-rumination with mothers, co-rumination with friends, and internalizing symptoms.
abstract: The current research examined co-rumination (extensively discussing, rehashing, and speculating about problems) with mothers and friends. Of interest was exploring whether adolescents who co-ruminate with mothers were especially likely to co-ruminate with friends as well as the interplay among co-rumination with mothers, co-rumination with friends, and anxious/depressed symptoms. Early- to mid-adolescents (N = 393) reported on co-rumination and normative self-disclosure with mothers and friends and on their internalizing symptoms in this cross-sectional study. Co-rumination with mothers (but not normative self-disclosure) was concurrently associated with adolescents' co-rumination with friends. In addition, the relation between co-rumination with mothers and adolescents' anxious/depressed symptoms reported previously (Waller & Rose, 2010) became non-significant when co-rumination with friends was statistically controlled. This suggests that the relation between friendship co-rumination and anxious/depressed symptoms may help explain the relation between mother-child co-rumination and anxious/depressed symptoms. Potential implications for promoting adolescents' well-being are discussed.
authors: 210 McAlester Hall, Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA. WallerE@missouri.edu
authors: Erika M
authors: EM
authors: Waller
authors: Amanda J
authors: AJ
authors: Rose
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001007:Anxiety; D002648:Child; D003142:Communication; D003863:Depression; D005260:Female; D033062:Friends; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009341:Negativism; D011340:Problem Solving; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D012650:Self Disclosure; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States
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