A two-year longitudinal study of gender differences in responses to positive affect and depressive symptoms during middle adolescence |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Psychology, The Center of Internet+Social Psychology, Renmin University of China, No. 59 Zhongguancun Street, Haidian District, Beijing 100872, China;2. Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences, University of Groningen, PO Box 72, 9700 AB Groningen, Netherlands;3. School of Psychology, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, China |
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| Abstract: | This study aimed to analyze the prospective associations during adolescence between depressive symptoms and response styles to positive affect and to examine gender differences. A longitudinal study was conducted with three waves separated by 1 year each to assess a non-clinical sample of 622 Spanish adolescents who were 13 and 14 years old (50.2% boys, 49.8% girls). The participants completed self-report measures of depressive symptoms and responses to positive affect (emotion-focused positive rumination, self-focused positive rumination and dampening of positive emotion). The results showed that the increase in depressive symptoms was associated with an increase in dampening and decreases in emotion-focused and self-focused positive rumination. Furthermore, girls presented more depressive symptoms, as well as higher dampening and lower self-focused positive rumination, than boys. The conclusions highlight the need to consider responses to positive affect in explaining gender differences in depressive symptoms during mid-adolescence, as well as in designing prevention programs. |
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| Keywords: | Depressive symptoms Positive affect Response styles Dampening Gender Adolescence |
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