title: Heightened ruminative disposition is associated with impaired attentional disengagement from negative relative to positive information: support for the "impaired disengagement" hypothesis.
abstract: Information processing accounts of rumination propose that impaired attentional disengagement from negative information may underpin heightened disposition to experience ruminative brooding in response to negative mood. The present study examined the relationship between individual differences in ruminative disposition and selective attention, using a paradigm capable of distinguishing between biases in the engagement and disengagement of attention. Results showed that higher dispositional ruminative brooding, as measured by both the brooding subscale of the RRS and an in-vivo assessment of ruminative disposition, was associated with greater relative impairment disengaging attention from negative compared to positive stimuli. These findings thus provide support for the "impaired disengagement" account of ruminative brooding.
authors.affiliation: a Study of Maladaptive to Adaptive Repetitive Thought (SMART) Lab , University of Exeter , Exeter , UK.
authors.forename: Felicity
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Southworth
authors.affiliation: b Centre for the Advancement of Research on Emotion, School of Psychology , University of Western Australia , Crawley , Australia.|c School of Psychology , Babes-Bolyai University , Cluj-Napoca , Romania.
authors.forename: Ben
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Grafton
authors.affiliation: b Centre for the Advancement of Research on Emotion, School of Psychology , University of Western Australia , Crawley , Australia.|c School of Psychology , Babes-Bolyai University , Cluj-Napoca , Romania.
authors.forename: Colin
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: MacLeod
authors.affiliation: a Study of Maladaptive to Adaptive Repetitive Thought (SMART) Lab , University of Exeter , Exeter , UK.|b Centre for the Advancement of Research on Emotion, School of Psychology , University of Western Australia , Crawley , Australia.
authors.forename: Ed
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Watkins
mesh_terms: D000339:Affect; D000070379:Attentional Bias; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013850:Thinking; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Rumination; attention; brooding; disengagement bias; engagement bias