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Rejection sensitivity as a vulnerability marker for depressive symptom deterioration in men.
De Rubeis, Jannika; Lugo, Ricardo; Witthöft, Michael et al.
2017In PLoS ONE, 12 (10), p. 0185802
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Abstract :
[en] Consistent across time and cultures, men and male adolescents older than 14 years of age appear underrepresented in mood disorders, and are far less likely than women to seek psychological help. The much higher rate of suicide amongst males suggests that depression in men might be underreported. One of the core human motives is to seek acceptance by others and avoid rejection. Rejection Sensitivity (RS) has been conceptualized as the cognitive-affective processing disposition to anxiously expect, readily perceive, and intensely respond to cues of rejection in the behavior of others. RS has been previously linked with the onset and course of depression, but - as yet - has not been investigated longitudinally in a clinical population. We investigated the predictive role of RS to symptom deterioration 6 months after end-of- treatment in 72 male inpatients with depressive spectrum disorder. The BDI was administered at intake, end-of-treatment and 6 month follow-up. RS scores were obtained at intake. Rejection Sensitivity had additional predictive power on BDI scores at 6 months follow-up controlling for BDI scores at end-of-treatment (ΔR2 = .095). The results are discussed in terms of the importance of targeting RS during treatment, and highlight the fact that therapeutic follow-up care is paramount. Future research should investigate possible mediators of the RS- relapse-to-depression association, such as self-blame, rumination, neuroticism, pessimism, emotion dysregulation, and low self-esteem.
Disciplines :
Treatment & clinical psychology
Author, co-author :
De Rubeis, Jannika
Lugo, Ricardo
Witthöft, Michael
Sütterlin, Stefan
Pawelzik, Markus
Vögele, Claus ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Integrative Research Unit: Social and Individual Development (INSIDE)
External co-authors :
yes
Language :
English
Title :
Rejection sensitivity as a vulnerability marker for depressive symptom deterioration in men.
Publication date :
19 October 2017
Journal title :
PLoS ONE
ISSN :
1932-6203
Publisher :
Public Library of Science, San Franscisco, United States - California
Volume :
12
Issue :
10
Pages :
e0185802
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
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