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Interaction Effect of Brooding Rumination and Interoceptive Awareness on Depression and Anxiety Symptoms

Lackner, Ryan J
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1455897661

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2016, MA, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of Psychological Sciences.
Awareness of the body (i.e., interoceptive awareness) and self-referential thought represent two distinct, yet habitually integrated aspects of self. A recent neuroanatomical and processing model for depression and anxiety incorporates the connections between increased but low fidelity afferent interoceptive input with self-referential and belief-based states. A deeper understanding of how self-referential processes are integrated with interoceptive processes may ultimately aid in our understanding of altered, maladaptive views of the self – a shared experience of individuals with mood and anxiety disorders. Thus, the purpose of the current study was to examine how negative self-referential processing (i.e., brooding rumination) is precisely related to interoception in the context of affective psychopathology. Subjects (N=82) completed an interoception task (heartbeat perception) in addition to self-reported measures of rumination and depression and anxiety symptoms. Results indicated an interaction effect of brooding rumination and interoceptive awareness on depression and anxiety-related distress. Specifically, high levels of brooding rumination coupled with low levels of interoceptive awareness were associated with the highest levels of depression and anxiety-related distress, whereas low levels of brooding rumination coupled with high levels of interoceptive awareness were associated with lower levels of depression and anxiety-related distress. The findings provide further support for the conceptualization of anxiety and depression as disorders involving the integration of interoceptive processes and negative self-referential processes.
David Fresco (Advisor)
40 p.
Psychology
self-referential processing; interoceptive awareness; depression; anxiety

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  • Lackner, R. J. (2016). Interaction Effect of Brooding Rumination and Interoceptive Awareness on Depression and Anxiety Symptoms [Master's thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1455897661

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Lackner, Ryan. Interaction Effect of Brooding Rumination and Interoceptive Awareness on Depression and Anxiety Symptoms. 2016. Kent State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1455897661.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Lackner, Ryan. "Interaction Effect of Brooding Rumination and Interoceptive Awareness on Depression and Anxiety Symptoms." Master's thesis, Kent State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1455897661

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