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Hooked on a feeling: Rumination about positive and negative emotion in inter-episode bipolar disorder.

Year: 2011

Type: article

Abstract: Rumination has been consistently implicated in the onset and maintenance of depression. Less work has examined rumination in the context of bipolar disorder, especially rumination about positive emotion. The present study examined rumination about negative and positive emotion in interepisode bipolar disorder (BD; n = 39) and healthy controls (CTL; n = 34). Trait rumination about positive and negative emotion, as well as experiential and physiological responses to a rumination induction, was measured. Illness course was also assessed for the BD group. Results indicated that the BD group reported greater trait rumination about positive and negative emotion compared with the CTL group, though no group differences emerged during the rumination induction. For the BD group, trait rumination about positive and negative emotion, as well as increased cardiovascular arousal (i.e., heart rate), was associated with greater lifetime depression frequency; trait rumination about positive emotion was associated with greater lifetime mania frequency. These findings suggest that interepisode BD is associated with greater rumination about positive and negative emotion, which in turn is associated with illness course.

Source: Journal of Abnormal Psychology

DOI: 10.1037/a0023667

Authors: June Gruber, Polina Eidelman, Sheri L. Johnson, Bailey Smith, Allison G. Harvey

Institutions: Yale University, University of California, Berkeley, University of South Florida

Language: English

Topic: Bipolar Disorder and Treatment

Subfield: Psychiatry and Mental health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funders: Israel National Road Safety Authority, National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression, National Institute of Mental Health