Exploring ethnicity's role in the level of cognitive processing adopted during depressive rumination
Year: 2018
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Depressive rumination among European Americans (EA) is a harmful style of responding \nto depressed mood because it is associated with a myriad of negative consequences, \nincluding the onset of depression. Recent work suggests that depressive rumination may \npose less psychological harm among Asians compared to EA, but the reasons for this are \nnot clear. The current study experimentally tested the hypothesis that depressive \nrumination differences between EA and Asians are a result of them having different \ndepressive rumination thinking styles. EA and Asian Americans (AA) depressively \nruminated about a self-identified unresolved problem and then provided self-descriptions \nto examine their self-concept. The self-descriptions were coded for whether adjectives \n(conceptually abstract) or verbs (conceptually concrete) were used to describe the self. \nThere was some evidence that EA used more adjectives than AA in addition to AA using \nmore verbs than EA to describe themselves. These findings suggested that compared to \nEA, AA may have a more concrete (???constructive???) depressive rumination thinking style. \nImplications of these findings in the context of theory and past research are discussed.
Author: Young, Gerald Robert
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7019001837